[AMPS] RE: Power handling of Coax

measures 2@vc.net
Fri, 5 May 2000 12:39:32 -0700


>
>> > So there is really and truly no such thing as a super-conductor?
>>
>> Even a super-conductor has loss, Rich.  Just like there is truly no such
>> thing as a non-inductive resistor.
>
>And one last point I forgot to add.  Even if you DID have a coax with ideal
>conductors (lossless) and it used a real world (not lossless) dielectric,
>you would still have attenuation of the signal down the line.  The
>dielectric is not just an insulator.  The only way you'd have no losses and
>no heating would be to have lossless conductors and a lossless dielectric.
>Both are impossible.
>
€  Superconductors exist,  Jon

-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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