"Reg Edwards" wrote

Reflections are functions of TIME, not frequency.

Oliver Heaviside had the right idea long before the invention of the
SWR meter.
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For "reflections" also read "Echos".
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Reg, G4FGQ.
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:54:51 +0100, "Reg Edwards"
wrote:


"Reg Edwards" wrote

Reflections are functions of TIME, not frequency.

Oliver Heaviside had the right idea long before the invention of the
SWR meter.
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For "reflections" also read "Echos".

Hi Reggie,

You are in fact wrong in all accounts. Reflections are functions of
distance - as are echoes. This is a phase issue. Time and frequency
are always inseparable as Kelvin would instruct you in first
principles before another hunk of chalk was winged off your noggin.

You may choose to render phase into time, but shift the frequency and
the phase shifts, not the distance. Mismatched Zo connectors do not
shrink or enlarge with frequency - the effects may, but physical
components rarely follow such perturbations.... until an arc-over
that is the classic failure mechanism for such mismatches (obviously,
and deliberately ignored in this thread).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Ric,
Yet again, like a Catherine Wheel, you are flying off in convoluted
tangents.
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Punchinello

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:10:41 +0100, "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Ric,
Yet again, like a Catherine Wheel, you are flying off in convoluted
tangents.

How else to follow your logic? As you can see, facile diversions are
easily managed in kind. ;-)

If you cannot reconcile distance to reflection, what use is it being
preserved in unzipped code? I await your next turn on the highway to
avoid this road-kill.

To cut the thread short, I recall one of your bedtime fairy tales of
how you fought a radar fire aboard an airplane. Cut it anyway you
want, but the fire undoubtedly arose from a mismatch. This appears to
have marked a trauma in your youth to avoid the discussion of mismatch
consequences.

Please, in the future, begin your posts with "Once upon a time..."
instead of
At risk of being called a Troll,
You must agree, this particular bait was self-fulfilling; and as
always, I am most pleased to serve your bidding.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

"Reg Edwards" wrote

Reflections are functions of TIME, not frequency.

Oliver Heaviside had the right idea long before the invention of
the SWR meter.
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For "reflections" also read "Echos".
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The reason there are so many misunderstandings about SWR is that SWR
meters are based on impedance and frequency. Not a simple concept.

Whereas reflections (echos) (which according to Cecil are what it's
all about) are functions of time and distance. With which we are very
familiar.

Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a simple measuring
instrument which could replace the SWR meter. Any ideas?

But we would still need an instrument, a TLI, which indicates whether
or not the transmitter is correctly loaded with 50 ohms. So perhaps
things are best kept as they are.

Just rename the SWR meter!
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Reg, G4FGQ.
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