>
>Tom Rauch wrote:
>
>>Now it took about 2 weeks and a hundred posts to sort through all
>>the allegations and nonsense just to find out what anyone who is
>>involved in measurements already knows, no one uses a scope
>>except when they can't use anything else.
>
>I spent 6 1/2 years in commercial RF design doing everything from
>designing 18 GHz Gunn Oscillators, 6 GHz PAs and cellular PAs.
Are we talking aout measuring power at microwave frequencies?.
>Never once did I measure RF power (peak or otherwise) using an Oscilloscope,
>nor did I see anyone else do that either. I would have been embarrassed
>to suggest that as a power measurement method to the Senior Staff
>Engineers!
? As well you should have been. We are not talking about measuring
power at anything other than HF.
>
>An o-scope is NOT an RF measurment tool, IMHO.
>
? For measuring up to several kilovolts into a 50 ohm termination at
MF/HF, its a good measurement technique.
>
- later, Jon
Rich...
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