RadioBanter - View Single Post - Rho = (Zload-Zo*)/(Zload+Zo), for complex Zo

September 19th 03, 05:58 AM

Cecil Moore wrote:

wrote:
Of course if you let go of Pfwd and Pref and just used Vfwd and Vref
you would quickly learn that you had no interest in Pfwd and Pref
and thus your inability to determine them would not cause you
much distress.

Uh Keith, radiated *POWER* is what we are trying to get from our
antennas.

Yes indeed. Net power. The only power that counts.
Pnet = average( v(t) * i(t) )

Forget that forward and reverse stuff. That's not what is radiated.

....Keith