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Old March 23rd 05, 01:38 AM
K7ITM
 
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Default (yet another) transmission line question

More for the fun of pondering it than for any immediate practical
reason...

If I make a balanced two-wire transmission line from round wires, and
I'm constrained to have the wire center-to-center spacing some
particular value (say one inch, or five centimeters, or whatever), what
wire diameter should I use to get the lowest matched-line loss? What
impedance line does that give (assuming air dielectric)?

Clearly for a given wire diameter, the wider the spacing the lower the
loss up to the point where radiation plus dielectric loss becomes
significant, but I can imagine situations where you want to limit the
wire spacing and get low loss.

Cheers,
Tom