No, your forward power reading is not the power that will be delivered to the
antenna less losses. That is only the case with a 1:1 SWR. In any other case,
the forward power reading of the usual SWR meter includes the reflected power.
Vic 4X6GP
> On 25 May 2017, at 5:32, Bill Turner <dezrat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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>> On Thu, 25 May 2017 10:12:20 +0800, VK6APK wrote:
>>
>>
>> No. Read it again. Ron was saying that 100% of the 1000 Watts, minus the
>> compounded resistive losses is going out into space. Those losses would
>> NOT amount to 100 Watts of dissipation.
>>
>> Therefore, with your superconductor feedline, as there are no esistive
>> losses, 100% of the 1000 Watts will be radiated.
>
> REPLY:
>
> If I understand you correctly, my 100 watts of reflected power is only
> important because it increases feed line loss, correct? With a
> lossless feed line the reflected power is still present but does no
> harm other than affecting the impedance at the feed point? Correct so
> far?
>
> So when my SWR meter shows 1000 watts forward power, that really is
> the true output of the amplifier before losses in the feed line are
> taken into account, correct? It's starting to make sense.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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