[Amps] Measuring RF Power

[G3rzp@aol.com]

Many years ago ( more than I really wish to remember, but this  discussion 
has reminded me)
we sat ina class in college and drew a graph of Irms times V rs to get rs  
power, and as I remember, it looked like the pulsating DC output from a full  
wave rectifier. I also remember  never having used this fact since, since  Vrms 
times I rms is the same heating power as those currents at zero frequency  
would provide (I have a dislike for 'DC current'!). In other words, the average  
power.
 
I suspect others may have used this: I know others have used Laplace  
transforms in  their professional careers, while I have used them once  since 
learning something (which I have, of course, since forgotten) about them  in 1969!
 
73
 
Peter G3RZP