Re: Topband: The "Magic-T" vs 0 degree and 180 degree hybrid combiner/splitters

2021-02-10 Thread Lee STRAHAN
Hi All, Rick I have to agree with you up to a point. Your 9 circle and other 8 circle receiving arrays except mine are on wide footprints and only use 4 active antennas at a time. All of my antennas are reduced footprint antenna arrays which require much more phasing accuracy for optimum per

Topband: The "Magic-T" vs 0 degree and 180 degree hybrid combiner/splitters

2021-02-10 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
Ham radio literature often IMHO misuses the term "magic tee" to refer to a transformer-based 0 degree hybrid combiner/splitter. AFAIK, a magic tee is a WAVEGUIDE device as explained here: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/microwave_engineering/microwave_engineering_eh_plane_tee.htm and here: http