[AMPS] Re: The Worldwide, No Holds Barred, SWR Quiz.

[measures@vcnet.com (measures)]

>measures wrote:
>
>>>Not if the impedance of your transmission line is the same is the 
>>>impedance of your source.  Draw it out on a Smith Chart, Rich.
>>>
>>?  In this case, the impedance of the source/generator is zero ohms, the 
>>characteristic impedance of the half wavelength transmission line is 93 
>>ohms, and the termination is 50-ohms. 
>>
>>>You move along a constant VSWR circle with 50 Ohms as the center of that 
>>>circle.  The radius of the circle is the magnitude of the VSWR.  This 
>>>assumes a 50 Ohms sytem and a Smith Chart normalized to 50 Ohms.
>>>
>>"This is assuredly not a 50 ohm system due to the presence of the half 
>>wavelength 93-ohm coax."
>
>Rich,
>
>MUST you debate everything?  Even when somebody agrees with you?
>
>It IS a 50 Ohm system because you are defining the measuring device as 50 
>Ohms.  .....

?  That which is happening in the 93-ohm halfwave transformer is 
inconsistent with a 50-ohm system.  

-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  


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