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I've initially thought it was some sort of April fool's article. But I'm skeptical. He didn't detail, but probably used a proper, non-irradiating cable, or no
by myth2018 7y ago
I've initially thought it was some sort of April fool's article. But I'm skeptical.
He didn't detail, but probably used a proper, non-irradiating cable, or no cable at all, when he experimented with the dummy load. If that was the case, he can't say he just swapped the dessert with the dummy load and, then, can't attribute the change in the results to that. So my guess is that the wires were in fact playing the role of an antenna there.
Besides, impedance matching doesn't mean much per se. As they say, even a dummy load can be tunned. The effectively irradiated power and the irradiation patterns are even more important than tunning in many situations.
- mich181189 7y agoIn this configuration, yes, the wires are most likely doing quite a bit of the pickup. The custard is more or less a dummy load - I didn’t intend it to radiate or really work as an antenna - I just wanted to try it to see what would happen. I do want to see if I can make custard radiate though. It’ll probably be quite lossy but it’ll be fun to try!
- myth2018 7y agoPerhaps the custard is working as a resistive load of a kind of beverage antenna. It's a valid experiment. I only think that is a bit misleading for those who read about it. People get impressed thinking that the custard was tunned to operate as an exotic antenna.