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Old March 6th 06, 08:51 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Fry
 
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Default Vertical vs Horizontal shootout part one

"Ed" wrote:
I suppose just a display for microvolts would suffice, though, and
that isn't hard to do at all. or just calibrate and re-paint the S meter
face to match...

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Just don't expect that the S-meter so "calibrated" is reading the real value
of the incident field arriving at the rx antenna. It won't be, unless that
calibration includes (exactly) the real-world performance of the receiving
antenna system at each frequency, including line loss, local reflections,
and other factors.

Otherwise the reading still will be given in fairly meaningless, relative
terms -- the same as S-units.

RF