"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:30:21 -0700, "Bob Agnew"
wrote:

Hi Bob, I have never taught at the University level myself, this is an
"Amateur" newsgroup. If you look at the Smith Chart, 1/2WL reflects

OK __ I won't post here anymore. I once was an Amateur when I was 14.
I thought that I wanted to get back into the hobby now that I am retired.

Hi Bob,

You as a prof. are not alone here. We have several, some still in the
saddle, others retired, and all Hams. You and Gary are not wrong
either, simply posting at cross purposes when the topic was sidelined
into half wave lines, SWR, and a demand for an explanation for a
problem that was never offered in the first place. This was a troll
that bit you, not Gary.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

I have been an amateur continuously since I was 13: 1963.

Transmission line: 1/2 half wave repeats the load, 1/4 wave inverts the
load.
That I knew in Jr High.

Finally understood it when I studied E&M in college.

73
H.
NQ5H

www.hep.utexas.edu/mayamuon