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Re: [TowerTalk] Probably dumb question

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Probably dumb question
From: jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:07:56 -0700
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On 8/14/18 9:19 AM, k7lxc--- via TowerTalk wrote:
     If there are 100 watts out and 10 watts reflected, what's the swr?
    If there are 200 watts out and 10 watts reflected, what's the swr?     Tnx.

Since SWR is the ratio between high and lowest "voltage", you need to calculate that.

For a 50 ohm line, 100W is 70.7 V, the 10W reflected is 22.4V - so max voltage is 70.7+22.4 =93.1 and min voltage is 70.7-22.4 = 48.3 so VSWR = 93.1/48.3 or 1.93

(the answer is impedance independent.. I just used 50 for an example)

This is handy to remember a 2:1 is about 10dB return loss (actually it's 9.5 or something...) 1.5:1 is about 14 dB




For the 200W and 10W case the forward voltage is 100V, the reverse is 22.4 so it's 122.4/77.6 = 1.58

(this is 13 dB return loss, so it's a bit worse than 1.5:1, which would be 14 dB)

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