[BC] AM metering point

[Cowboy]

On Monday 04 November 2013 06:00:03 pm donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:
> Applied further, the 4:1 balun on my KT-34 is what "I" consider the  
> last transmitter matching device before my antenna, so I will claim  
> 1500 AT the antenna itself, calculating a -30% drop through the balun...
> ( no way to measure 200 ohm balanced feed ).

 I saw a balun once, or the charred remains, that probably had something
 like a 20-30% loss through it.

 Taken a step even further...
 *I* consider that flat wagon-wheel assemblage at the top of the 100
 foot unshielded, series insulated "matching section and support pole"
 to be the antenna.
 Therefore......

 OTOH, as an inspector, I'd consider the first input to a transmission line
 of any type after the final active amplifying device to be the transmitter
 output connection point. 

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Cowboy