PLEEEEEESE!!!!! MAKE IT STOOOOOOOP!!!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Reid <jreid@aloha.net>
To: realex@flash.net <realex@flash.net>; Charles R Constantine
<kr6c@juno.com>
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Mismatch Loss and Tuners
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bob alexander <realex@flash.net>
>To: Charles R Constantine <kr6c@juno.com>
>Cc: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Date: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 3:32 PM
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Mismatch Loss and Tuners
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>> So, you combine the
>>source with the reflected wave and the result is a source wave that
>>is reduced in strength by the magnitude of the reflected wave.
>
>>Sound familiar?
>
>Nope, mine reads higher than the source.
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>
>When I have vswr on my feedline, my Bird 43 can read a
>many watts more in the forward direction at the output of
>the tuner, than the meter at the input of the tuner says is
>coming out of the linear!! If I read 1000 watts output from
>the linear on the Bird meter, then look at the forward power
>at the output of the tuner, can be anywhere from 1050 to
>1200 watts, depending upon the frequency of operation,
>with the linear output held constant.
>
>Guess I am reading the reflection gain, because I know
>the Bird is reading real power forward.
>
>73, Jim, KH7M
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