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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:45:18 GMT
- Subject: Re: SWR Tuning and PLL
- Message-ID: <103400065@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- > If you wish to be precise, this is all true. However, for run-of-the-mill
- > CB purposes, it is the ratio of transmitted to reflected power. Why confuse
- > people with all the possible types of standing wave, or methods of determining
- > the SWR?
-
- Well, for one thing, Bill, you're still totally WRONG, and you're going
- to be badly misleading poor Joe CB Operator out there as to what his "SWR
- meter" is telling him.
-
- SWR is NOT the ratio of transmitted to reflected power. To think of it this
- way implies a complete misunderstanding of what SWR is all about. For example,
- an SWR of 2:1 does NOT mean that you're getting half the power reflected, or
- twice the power reflected, or anything else you can get from the ratio of
- the number "2" to the number "1". With a 2:1 SWR, only ~11% of the power is
- being reflected from the load, and this is usually quite tolerable. Your
- way, people are going to be really concerned if they see anything over about
- 1.1:1!!!
-
- It is misinformation like this that has led to a lot of the obsessive
- behavior we see in the area of VSWR in the CB and ham communities.
-
-
- Bob Myers KC0EW Hewlett-Packard Co. |Opinions expressed here are not
- User Interface Tech. Div.|those of my employer or any other
- myers@fc.hp.com Fort Collins, Colorado |sentient life-form on this planet.
-