[Lowfer] Da Probe Quiz

[Peter Barick]

I'm curious, and smelling a rat somewhere, was hoping Mike R or John
would have jumped on this to properly subdue it.
Lacking other takers, well ...

>>> ashlockw@hotmail.com 09/11/03 06:32PM >>>
[snip - see Bill's orig post for full background]

> He isolates the return of the E-probe and the coax shld becomes
> the return.
This appears a bit incongruent. Wasn't the shield always the return? If
no then what was?


> Also, he grounds the shld to his new balcony [on the first floor and
also on top flr].
> The question is: what effect does the change in receiver 
> location have on VO1NAs signal?
Ah, having again grounded the shld near the receiver my intuition say
that nominal feedline attenuation will reduce the signal. However, and
considering it's Bill's Q, er trap, its also likely that the sig will
increase due to the dangling feedline.

Now let's see how Bill's loop reckoning ways in on this.

>Second situation: Laurence moves to a different hotel a short distance
down 
>the street that is the same height but 5000ft x 5000ft wide and his
room is 
>again on the top floor. What is the signal strength of VO1NA with the
return 
>of the E-probe connected to the balcony?
>Bill A

Hmm, bigger hotel foot print, back on top floor sans 1000ft feedline
(?) ... hmm, was this during the fall equinox?

Peter