[TowerTalk] Corrections to Mismatch Rebutal

[Bill Aycock]

At 12:50 AM 8/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Dan Quigley wrote:
>> 
>> Wow this is great!  There is some real poential here folks!
>> 
>> So if we were to completely detune our antenna tuners (to make it
>> reflect more power than the antenna does).  RF would bounce back and
>> forth, gaining power until finally brute force wins out over impedance
>> (hopefully on the less reflective end) and our antenna would emit a
>> coherent beam of RF energy at... er... well... (ooops.. I ran out of
>> zeros on my calculator) at one heck of a lot more power!
>
>Then you would have a LASER.  Talk about narrow beamwidth!!!
>Tom W7WHY
>
>WOW- this is a great opportunity- but-- it is not a LASER, since the L
stands for light

since we are dealing with RF- it would be a RASER-

Or, in the Electronic Radiation field- an ERASER-

Bill

Bill Aycock   ---   Persimmon Hill 
 Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
 (in the N.E. corner of the State)
      W4BSG   --   Grid EM64vr
        baycock@HiWAAY.net

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