[Amps] Hmmmm...Legal limit boiled the oil in the cantena

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:44:16 -0500, "Jeff Blaine AC0C"
<keepwalking188 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>I agree with you for the real case.  But to say by definition there can't be 
>swr - I think that would only be the case with infinitely small source and 
>loads and zero spacing between.
>
>So that for whatever conductor and distance there does exist between the 
>ultimate current sources and sinks "point zero", there would exhibit the 
>standing wave due to the mismatch.  Even the anode, in a sense, has a 
>distributed conductor shape.  Pretty smeared over the geometry involved - 
>but it's got to be there.

REPLY:

I have this pictured as the antenna bolted directly to the tube's
anode. If that is not exactly the case, then SWR would exist.

73, Bill W6WRT