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Old March 14th 07, 02:29 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default VSWR doesn't matter?

On Mar 13, 9:27 pm, Walter Maxwell wrote:
That was over 40 years ago, but I seem to remember that any discontinuity that
resulted in a VSWR greater than 1.005:1 produced a ghost that could not be
tolerated in the transmitted picture.


And of course, the same thing can happen in a simple system consisting
of
a TV source, a transmission line, and a mismatched load. TV ghosting
can
prove that the reflected traveling waves make multiple round trips to
the load
and back to the source, yet many continue to deny that proof. The best
(copout) argument that I have heard against it is that, "That is not
steady-state",
and therefore doesn't count. :-)
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com