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Old April 15th 09, 10:34 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Jim Kelley Jim Kelley is offline
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Cecil Moore wrote:

The standing waves don't have to be eliminated,
just reduced until the traveling wave dominates
the waveform. I added 600 ohm non-inductive
resistors in series until the reflections were
negligible and the traveling wave dominated the
waveform.


So why do you have to go to all that trouble when you want to measure
traveling wave current, but not when you want to measure traveling wave
energy?

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