Re: [Amps] High SWR,

["Gary Schafer" <garyschafer@comcast.net>]

I am curious as to why you would say that "reflected power is not real"?

Just because reflected power upsets the readings of a wattmeter such as a
bird or telewave, and you have to make a correction to read true power being
delivered, does not mean that reflected power doesn't really exist. It is
just as real as the forward power.

By the way, the bird article quoted deals with how line loss can mask the
true amount of swr and reflected power that reaches your meter.

Not trying to start another argument here but just trying to keep facts
straight as there seems to be plenty of confusion already on the subject.

73
Gary  K4FMX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Glen Zook
> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:24 AM
> To: ve3zi@rac.ca; Amps; Carl
> Subject: Re: [Amps] High SWR,
> 
> 
> Some people just cannot seem to grasp the phantom "reflected power"
> concept.  Basically, "reflected power" is not real.  To obtain the
> measurement of the true power being delivered to the load you have to
> subtract the reflected power reading from the forward power reading.  This
> is explained on page 11 of the following manual for the Telewave
> wattmeter:
> 
> http://www.telewave.com/pdf/TWDS-8007.pdf
> 
> There are all sorts of things involved in the measurement of the power
> output of a transmitter and the reflected power measured.  A good
> explanation of how the losses in the coaxial cable affect this can be
> found at
> 
> http://www.bird-
> technologies.com/techapps/app_notes/CableLossMaskingEffect_092705.pdf
> 
> Glen, K9STH
> 
> Website:  http://k9sth.com
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 4/22/09, Carl <km1h@jeremy.mv.com> wrote
> 
> But with noobs from the CB/FM ranks old myths die hard. They cant be
> bothered buying a Handbook or Antenna Manual and just spout off on here
> and elsewhere with zero idea of what they are talking about.
> 
> 
> 
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