"Owen Duffy" wrote in message
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"Wayne" wrote in
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Many years ago, I might have been able to somehow deduce cable losses
from a Smith chart, but nowadays I just use the published curves.

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The Smith chart solution I described in my earlier post works for
arbitrary line lengths, and properly reveals the cases where loss under
standing waves is less than matched line loss. TLLC
(http://www.vk1od.net/calc/tl/tllc.php) also calculates the loss
correctly for arbitrary line lengths.

Owen
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Great link, Owen. I have it bookmarked and will do some playing around with
it.
Wayne
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