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[AMPS] Hold on - SWR meter placement

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Subject: [AMPS] Hold on - SWR meter placement
From: amps@txrx.demon.co.uk (Steve Thompson)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:40:12 +0100

-----Original Message-----
From: measures <measures@vcnet.com>
To: AMPS <amps@contesting.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Date: 11 October 1999 14:04
Subject: Re: [AMPS] Hold on - SWR meter placement


>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: measures <measures@vcnet.com>
>>To: AMPS <amps@contesting.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
>>Date: 09 October 1999 15:35
>>Subject: Re: [AMPS] Hold on - SWR meter placement
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Rich,
>>>>There are several possible reasons why your measurements
>>"varied all
>>>>over the place."
>>>>
>>>>1. You have a defective SWR meter
>>>>
>>> A halfwave of 93 ohm coax was connected to a 50 ohm
>>termination.  The
>>>50-ohm swr meter) was inserted at the end of the 93 ohm
>>section and the
>>>reading was 1:1.  At the center of the halfwave section,
>>the swr was
>>>93/50 =1.86:1.    .  .  The bottom-line is that when you
>>have a matched
>>>line, SWR-reading will not vary no matter where the meter
>>is inserted.
>>>However, with a mismatched line, placement of the SWR
meter
>>matters.
>>
>>If you used a SWR meter set up to work with Zo of 93ohms,
>>the reading would not change with position.
>
>Are you saying that if a 93-ohm swr meter were connected to
one of the 50
>+/- j0 ohm points it would read 1:1 -- the same as if the
meter were
>positioned at the center of the 93-ohm half-wave coax
section?


No, it would read 1.86:1, the same as it would read anywhere
along the 93 ohm coax.

I'm sorry, but I can't continue this discussion any further.
I need to concentrate heavily on something else so I'm
bowing out for a while.

Steve



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