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Old June 12th 10, 09:15 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
lu6etj lu6etj is offline
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Default Where does it go? (mismatched power)

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As a courtesy to me, a foreigner tourist ham, would you mind stop for
a brief moment your more general differences and tell me if you agree
on the behavior of a Thevenin generator with a series resistance of 50
ohms in relation to changes in impedance of a lossless TL predicted by
the Telegrapher's equations solutions in terms of the power dissipated
on the load resistance and series resistence of Thevenin source?
I am pretty serious about this: until today I could not know if you
agree in that!! :)


sure, if you properly apply the telegrapher's equations and the
thevenin equivalent methods. *The real problem is that if you try to
do that for most amateur radio transmitters the source impedance is
not linear, and even worse may be time varying, which renders the
thevenin equivalent source substitution invalid.


OK. Thank you very much. This clarify so much the issue to me. Please,
another question: On the same system-example, who does not agree with
the notion that the reflected power is never dissipated in Thevenin
Rs? (I am referring to habitual posters in these threads, of course)