Still not exactly understanding here, using the 11 meter antenna as an example.
If the antenna (radiator) I construct is built as close to precise as possible by adjusting the length of the wire so that the wire resonates mid-band then that means that most of the energy that reaches the wire will be radiated outward as an radio frequency energy wave.
If I construct a ladder line feed, again as close to precise as I can, the ladder line, because it is a balanced component, will help prevent any energy that was not radiated by the antenna from traveling back down the ladder line feed and back into the transmitter.
At this point, if I use an antenna tuner with a balanced input then the antenna tuner will match the 50 ohm transmitter impedance to the ladder line/antenna impedance regardless what that impedance is, within a certain range, is there a large loss of energy matching these two opposing impedances, or not ?
Question, what happens to the energy that is not being radiated from the wire that was created from the transmitter ? At what points in this particular antenna system is this energy converted to heat, assuming this is what happens to the energy ? Seems like the goal here is to prevent as much of the energy created from the transmitter from being turned into heat on the transmitting side of the system and to radiate outward as an energy wave.
I went ahead and purchased an ATR-30, priced well in good condition, I was bidding on an ATR-10 on Fleabay but was outbid, hoping that the ATR-30 is not too big for my use with lower power. I wanted to go manual tuning figuring less likelihood of noise being introduced into the system, hopefully this was not a mistake.
