Jim, Thanks for all your experiments. It is enlightening to see what happens. As to why your matched antenna with the tuner requires less drive power than the dummy load, I have no idea! I would thin
Hi again, to continue: Jon replied: Well, today I proceeded with more care. Borrowed another Bird 43 from KH6FMT, who must have purchased it close to 45 years ago! It certainly looks it, S/N 15794; m
Aloha, Following my confession/ignorance in not retuning my amp during the tests yesterday, Jon wrote, in part: Per this point.... Rcv'd a very nice note from Bruce Knox, W8GN of RF Applications, bui
Aloha, and to continue: Yes, true; however......... have now removed the tuner and the Hofi switch from the set up, and the result is.... the true behavior of my particular C4 at 28055, where I find
WOW! You are asking some tough questions here! First of all, indicated forward power is likely to be the SUM of the forward and reflected power. One way to check is to tune the amp into your antenna.
you have some loss in your long run of coax, you can compensate inside the shack. And some folks over-compensate, and some have really really long, lossy runs of coax (really!, honest!). George K. Wa
some stuff and some questions.. Rich asked: Yes, at least three of them: 1. Is the operation as I described legal? Or, how much power is actually being radiated, about 1500 watts or about 1800 watts
Oops, forgot one question within: some stuff and some questions.. 4. How much power is the linear actually generating? About 1500 or about 1800 watts? 73, Jim, KH7M PS: My belief is about 1500 watts.
Ok, 1.8 kW indicated into 2.3:1 vswr impedance load, with 300 or so reflected was previous data. Now, because of some strange behavior by the P-3000 gadget, have decided to switch to Bird instruments
1500 Watts. The power meter in reading total power is reading effectively the sum of forward and reflected power. 73, Jon KE9NA -- Jon Ogden KE9NA http://www.qsl.net/ke9na <-- CHECK IT OUT! It's been
I have to think a little about your statements. While I don't doubt your experimental results, I would have thought that you would not see that variance in drive power. Of course, one has to start th
More fiddling will follow, hi. I have just, early this morning been reading in Walter Maxwell's book, "Reflections". In Chapter 7, section 7.5 he discusses what is required to match a mismatched ant
OK! Now it makes sense. Yeah, you gotta retune for different loads. There will be SOME variation because as others point out, the SWR meter is really designed to optimally work in a relatively 50 Ohm