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[TowerTalk] Mismatch Loss and Tuners

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Mismatch Loss and Tuners
From: spelunk.sueno@mci2000.com (spelunk.sueno)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 23:21:38 -0400
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


>
>
>-----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
>
>
>> 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.
>
>
>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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