On Apr 13, 11:40 am, Richard Clark wrote:


[lotsa good stuff snipped]

A poor physical open or poor physical short will never be
improved by ANY transmission line mechanics.

Well, I dunno about that. Try this experiment:

Take a "poor" short, say 1 ohm, and transform it through a lossless
1/4 wavelength line of Zo=200 ohm. The result will be 40,000 ohm.
Now transform this 40K ohm load through another lossless 1/4
wavelength line of Zo=10 ohm. The result of this transformation will
be a "virtual" 0.003 ohm.

Is that an improvement? [g]

Regards,

Wes