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[TowerTalk] Corrections to Mismatch Rebutal

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Corrections to Mismatch Rebutal
From: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:50:44 -0700
Dan Quigley wrote:
> 
> Wow this is great!  There is some real poential here folks!
> 
> So if we were to completely detune our antenna tuners (to make it
> reflect more power than the antenna does).  RF would bounce back and
> forth, gaining power until finally brute force wins out over impedance
> (hopefully on the less reflective end) and our antenna would emit a
> coherent beam of RF energy at... er... well... (ooops.. I ran out of
> zeros on my calculator) at one heck of a lot more power!

Then you would have a LASER.  Talk about narrow beamwidth!!!
Tom W7WHY

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