[TowerTalk] An Interesting Experiment

K4SB k4sb@mindspring.com
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:55:36 -0700


Doug Westover wrote:
 
>         If we truly believe that "reflected power" is real, under the
>         hypothesis of this experiment are we going to get infinitly
>         many pulses out from the single pulse in?
> 
> Doug W6JD

I would say no. It doesn't take many trips up and down the feedline
before the feedline loss will attenuate the thing to a value which is
for all practical purposes, non existant. And at something like 
186,000 miles per second X the VF, it's gonna be gone PDQ.

73

Ed

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