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Old January 7th 07, 04:21 AM posted to rec.radio.cb
LeIand C. Scot LeIand C. Scot is offline
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Default How to measure absolute power using VNA?


"Telstar Electronics" wrote in message
ups.com...
Go to the S21 function. Your S21 power is read in dB...


That would be "dBm" I think. Logarithmic power measurements have to be
referred to some reference power lever since dB is the logarithm of a ratio.
The one I see most often is dB above 1 milliwatt.

Also "S21" is a voltage transmission coefficient in the "scattering
parameter matrix" characterizing a 2-port network.

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