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Old March 14th 07, 11:14 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default VSWR doesn't matter?

On Mar 14, 5:36 pm, "Richard Fry" wrote:
And this it the reason that much of the voltage reflected from an
antenna/far-end mismatch returns from the tx back to the antenna to be
radiated, and so to produce the TV ghost image seen under those conditions.


For whatever reason, ghosting of this sort proves that the reflected
energy
makes a round trip from the load to the source and back. The ghosting
delay is exactly what a speed-of-light EM traveling wave would
experience.
In fact, multiple ghosting is caused by multiple reflections.
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com