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Re: [TowerTalk] Smart antennas

To: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Smart antennas
From: Bill Turner <wrt@dslextreme.com>
Reply-to: wrt@dslextreme.com
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 18:08:37 -0700
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On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:03:02 -0700, Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>Those of you with "legal limit" amplifiers 
>running right at the edge: Do you calibrate your power meter for the actual 
>line impedance observed, say, when your SWR is 1.5:1, or do you just use 
>the 50 ohm numbers. 

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That's a good question.  I use the lesser of:

1.  Peak power as read by my Autek WM-1.

or

2.  60% of the DC steady-state input.  

-- 
Bill, W7TI


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