[Amps] Mismatch loss

[Jim Brown]

On 5/2/2012 11:42 AM, Larry Benko wrote:
> here are two different topics going on with this question:
> 1.) Mismatch loss
> 2.) Additional attenuation in a transmission which is operated with an
> SWR different than 1.0:1.

1) None of this has any relevance without considering the actual complex 
source impedances and load impedances at each connector. Those 
impedances are likely to have far greater effect than the small 
discontinuity of a proper UHF connector.

2) At HF, and at low VHF, mating UHF connectors are nothing more than a 
discontinuity in the impedance of a line that is too small to matter.  
They are too short as a fraction of a wavelength for transmission line 
analysis to matter.

73, Jim K9YC