[TowerTalk] measuring power, reference planes, and all that

[Jim Lux]

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