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- Info-Hams Digest Mon, 20 Dec 93 Volume 93 : Issue 1485
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- Today's Topics:
- SWR tweeking: Details, details...
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- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 18:50:23 GMT
- From: mvb.saic.com!unogate!news.service.uci.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: SWR tweeking: Details, details...
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- In article <CI72uE.839@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> alanb@sr.hp.com (Alan Bloom) writes:
- >Gary Coffman (gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us) wrote:
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- >: Well that depends on why you're doing the SWR measurement, and how well
- >: you know the characteristics of your line. If you know your particular
- >: line characteristics, you can make the measurement *anywhere* that's
- >: convienent and use the Smith Chart, or the formulas in the Antenna Book
- >: to determine what complex impedance appears at any point in the system.
- >
- >An SWR meter does not measure complex impedance, no matter where it is
- >placed. It measures the magnitude (but not the phase) of the reflection
- >coeffficient and displays that on a meter calibrated in units of SWR.
-
- Absolutely correct, and what I said in my second paragraph when talking
- about measurements at the antenna. All you get is a number that can be
- translated into the absolute value of the complex impedance mismatch, not
- whether it's resistive or reactive, or the sign if reactive. There are ways
- of determining those things with the aid of a SWR meter, but it requires
- you to vary another independant variable, frequency.
-
- >Assuming a lossless feedline, the SWR is the same at all points along
- >the line.
-
- No real line is lossless, though some lines are much better than others.
- Lossless lines aren't required, but knowledge of your line's characteristics
- is required.
-
- Gary
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