Roger, youre correct; its been said so many times you would think it
would sink in.
But with noobs from the CB/FM ranks old myths die hard. They cant be
bothered buying a Handbook or Antenna Manual and just spout off on here
and elsewhere with zero idea of what they are talking about.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Parsons" <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
To: "Amps" <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] High SWR,
>
> I know this has been said before, but just because your SWR meter says
> there is x Watts of power coming back down the line, it doesn't mean
> that it is being dissipated in your transmitter. All it means is that
> the transmitter sees a load other than 50 Ohms (or whatever) - and it
> may or may not be able to match it. If you have a really bad mismatch
> you can (apparently) have the situation that your 100W transmitter is
> (say) transmitting 1kW and getting 900W back. Obviously that can't
> really happen - the reason that it seems to is that the SWR meter is
> measuring Volt-Amperes (reactive power) rather than Watts (real
> power) - that is that the current and voltage are not in phase -
> except in the special case of a 1:1 SWR.
>
> 73 Roger
> VE3ZI
>
>
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