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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: SWR Tuning and PLL
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.223927.3267@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
- References: <1gq5mdINNscc@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <103400061@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:39:27 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <103400061@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
- >> The "standing wave" is the vector sum of these two voltages. All the
- >> power injected into the transmission line by the transmitter is dissipated
- >> in either the antenna or the line losses, none is absorbed by the radio. A
- >
- >Minor nit: SOME of the power most certainly WILL be "absorbed by the radio,"
- >unless we assume that the output stage of the transmitter represents either
- >a perfect open or a perfect short to the returning (reflected) signal. Both
- >are unlikely. The mismatch at the transmitter end is very rarely considered
- >in SWR examples, as things get really messy.
-
- Well of course a conjugate match at the transmitter forms a perfect reflector
- for the reflecting wave and sends it right back toward the antenna. As you
- note, most fixed tuned radios will not be a perfect conjugate match, though
- they may be close. However, the reflected wave can't dissipate in the load
- impedance of the radio PA since that is only a calculated intermediate
- product of voltage and current in the PA and not a real dissipative load
- for the wave. What happens instead is that the voltage and current vectors
- add to the dynamic values in the PA and shift the operating point. This can
- lower the *efficiency* of the PA stage and *indirectly* increase the heat
- dissipation of the PA stage. All the RF power in the stage, generated and
- return wave, does go back out the port to the antenna, however, where it
- eventually dissipates in a real dissipative load. That forward power will
- be lower than expected, of course, due to the reduced efficiency of the
- PA stage.
-
- Gary
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