[AMPS] Lets chew on this

[tskelto@ces.clemson.edu]

BUT do YOU want 1000 watts of reflected power on your coaxial
feedline??? Not me buckaroo..... You think you have RFI problems now?

73, Tom W4iU


> From km1h@juno.com Wed Mar  5 12:00:21 1997
> From: km1h@juno.com
> To: amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [AMPS] Lets chew on this
> X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3,6-7,9-13
> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:58:34 EST
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> 
> Y'all gonna get a real lecture from Tom on this one Doug!
> 
> The real answer is that the reflected power is retransmitted on the next
> cycle and on and on every microsecond or whatever.
> The only power loss is the reflected power loss in the transmission line.
> This can be from negligible to high depending upon the frequency vs
> matched loss of the line.
> 
> Toms answer about subtracting the foreward from the reflected power  to
> obtain the power absorbed by the load is accurate.   
> 
> As Yogi Berra might have said: "Its watt gose out watt counts"
> 
> 73.....Carl  KM1H
> 
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