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Re: [Amps] Asynchronous coax matching transformer

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Asynchronous coax matching transformer
From: Ian White GM3SEK <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>
Reply-to: Ian White GM3SEK <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 07:38:38 +0100
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Carl wrote:
>Does anyone remember the formula for matching 50 to 75 Ohms with 2 very
>short lengths of coax?
>If I remember it used a 75 Ohm section at the output of the amp, and a 50
>Ohm section to the CATV hardline. Frequency dependent of course.
>
>Its been about 25 years since I built one.
>

http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~demerson/twelfth/twelfth.htm

By paralleling two lengths of 50 or 75 ohm line, it can also match to 25 
or 37.5 ohms; or to even lower impedances by paralleling three lengths 
of the same line.


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73 from Ian GM3SEK
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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