[TowerTalk] measuring power, reference planes, and all that
Jim Lux
jimlux at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 4 17:41:47 EDT 2003
There's been a lot of real interesting discussion here, both on and off
list. My questions about measuring power have a real basis in the context
of fairly sophisticated phased array designs where the amplifiers are used
to supply reactive power instead of using passive L or C. It's not that I
want to skirt the rules and run megaQRO with specsmanship and creative rule
reading... but neither do I want to artifically restrict the power available.
Rather than burden all you readers with a lengthy post of the background
and what I'm trying to do, I've written it up, in the context of our recent
discussion, and posted it on a web page at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~w6rmk/active1.htm
Comments, flames, questions, etc. are all gratefully accepted. (Well, maybe
I'm not grateful for the flames, but I read those too, because within the
flame is often a good point that needs to be addressed.)
Jim, W6RMK
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