[TowerTalk] 2000 Antenna Forum Speakers

[Eric Gustafson]

Hi Jim,

After wading through Dr Best's last article in CommQuart, it
seemed to me that nobody was really arguing about anything but
semantics.  We all get the same numbers for the same scenarios
(although I'll grant you some get there by a much shorter path
than others).  The only difference is that some want to ascribe
the additional line loss due to mismatch to the fact of the line
being mismatched.  And others (rightly) point out that if the
line had no loss in the first place, the mismatch would be
irrelevant and cause no additional loss of its own.  So the loss
is really due to the lossiness of the line not the mismatch
condition.  The mismatch condition merely exacerbates the bad
characteristics of the line.  It really just depends on how one
_wants_ to look at it.

73, Eric  N7CL



>From: "Jim Reid" <kh7m@hsa-kauai.net>
>Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:59:08 -1000
>
>Tim, K3LR,  sent along,  in part:
>
>> 2000 Antenna Technology Forum
>> 
>> Friday, May 19  Room 1    2:15 to 5:00 pm.
>
>> "Understanding Wave Reflections and Impedance 
>> Matching in Transmission Lines"
>> Dr. Steven Best VE9SRB
>
>Hmmmm... here we go again!!  Wonder if the good
>Dr.  will use the complex calculus math as done
>in his paper in Comm.  Quartly. several months
>ago?
>
>Wonder if Walt Maxwell,  W2DU,  or W.  Bruene,
>W5OLY,  might possibly be in attendance?  Wish Walt's
>new edition of Reflections were already published
>and available.
>
>Should be an interesting presentation,  particularly
>the  question/discussion  period to follow!!  Sure won't
>miss this session,  hi.  Should be lots of fun,  if.....
>
>73,  Jim,  KH7M

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