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Old August 9th 05, 10:48 PM
SignalFerret
 
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Just curious, what is a piston attenuator? For the life of me I can't seem
to picture it. I know how a slab of resistive material inserted in to a
wave guide works as an attenuator, but how is it accomplished in a coax
transmission line? If someone has a photo, or diagram of the inner workings
that would be great!

Robert
N3LGC

"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
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What you need is a standard Piston attenuator whose performance is
largely calculable. Forget about dinky wire-ended resistors whose
performance in attenuators is a matter of guesswork.
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Reg.