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"Obviously 100W is dissipated inthe transmitter and efficiency is 50%." This is a Class A amplifier limit but not for other classes of amplifiers. Terman tells us on page 450 of his 1955 opus: "The high efficiency of the Class C amplifier is a result of the fact that plate current is not allowed to flow except when the instantaneous voltage drop across the tube is low; i.e., Eb supplies energy to the amplifier only when the largest portion of this energy will be absorbed by the tuned circuit. "Transmission Lines, Antennas, and Wave Guides" by King, Mimno, and Wing is an excellent reference, and like Terman, the authors agree with Walter Maxwell. On page 43 is found: "Principal of Conjugates in Impedance Matching - If a dissipationless network is inserted between a constant-voltage generator of impedance Zg and a load of impedance ZR such that maximum power is delivered to the load, at every pair of terminals the impedance looking in opposite directions are conjugates of each other." The real world is full of imperfections which by no means preclude practical work. Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI |
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