[Amps] Load Pulling

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Wed Sep 12 10:26:13 EDT 2007


> My apologies... I misses the "V" after the 70 so the
> output of the amp/generator is a 70V pulse with a
> width of 20nS every 480nS. This means that the period
> is 500nS and a duty cycle around of 0.6%.

Good luck on adjusting things while watching a thermometer. 
I can't imagine doing that.
It would be far simpler and more accurate with a pulse to 
build a detector. You are not trying to measure average 
power, you are trying to measure maximum energy transfer. 
There is a big difference.

If you match for maximum peak voltage across the load you 
have the optimum loadline for the source.

The problem is you don't have RF or at least I didn't see 
where you say anything about RF. You have a "50 kHz 
fundamental pulse" every 480 nS.  No way to tune that with a 
tuner. Or is that a .00002 second burst of RF at some 
frequency? Is it a very square waveform with lots of odd 
harmonics??

73 Tom





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