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[AMPS] The Worldwide, No Holds Barred, SWR Quiz.

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Subject: [AMPS] The Worldwide, No Holds Barred, SWR Quiz.
From: measures@vcnet.com (measures)
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 03:37:56 -0700
>
>On Tuesday, October 05, 1999 4:09 AM, measures [SMTP:measures@vcnet.com]
>wrote:
>> >
>> >On Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:53 AM, measures
>[SMTP:measures@vcnet.com]
>> >wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >Since I'm wearing egg anyway, more can't hurt.
>> >> >
>> >> >1.  Smith Chart says 1/2 wave cable brings you all the around back
>to
>> >> >the original load impedance (50 ohms, here).  Therefore the black
>box of
>> >> >the cable/load looks like 50 ohms, so, all should be happy.  I say
>the
>> >> >VSWR is 93/50 = 1.86:1 - this caused by the mismatch at the load
>end.
>> >> 
>> >> ?  You have 50 +/- j0 ohms at the position of the SWR meter, and it
>reads 
>> >> 1.86:1?  I don't see how, Mike.  
>> >> 
>> >
>> >Rich, this says that as long as I have a multiple-half-wave of cable,
>> >the impedance of the cable plays no part in the SWR.  
>> 
>> ok
>> 
>> >If this were true, what happens to the standing waves that are
>created
>> >at the load end ( 93 ohm cable, 50 ohm load )?
>> 
>> >Why would connecting an SWR meter to the near end eliminate them?
>> 
>>   It eliminates reflections only at the halfwave point.  
>> >
>
>It doesn't eliminate the standing waves along the cable.

?  True.  .  However,  the meter is not moving along the cable.  It is 
fixed at the generator end of the halfwave transmission line. 

>The reflections from the mismatched load/cable are still on the cable.
>What happened to them?

? Reflections exist only within the 93 ohm, half wavelength section. 


-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  


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