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Old August 30th 03, 03:09 AM
J. McLaughlin
 
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Dear Reg & Group:
You are correct. The value found on the blackboard is wrong. I was
too hasty. When sitting down, the answer becomes clear. Perhaps at my
age my brain needs to be seated in order to work correctly.
You hypothesis on what we did wrong may well be on point. No way to
know.
Thank you also for your suggestions about the use of your computer
programs.

I apologize for being too hasty and not following the advice I
continually give my students: check your work.

73 Mac N8TT
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"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
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"J. McLaughlin" wrote -
Dear Reg:
Lab equipment was not used. The lab was just a convenient

gathering
place with a blackboard. (No cigarettes in our lab or anywhere

inside
buildings.)
I suspect that we made an arithmetic error. Need to revisit

what we
did - much too late at night right now.
Thanks for the poke. 73 Mac N8TT

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Mac, you didn't make an arithmetical error. I think you used the wrong

value
of terminating reactance Xt. Just a Sherlock Holmes deduction. ;o)

The value of terminating reactance which gives greatest possible

magitutude
of reflection coefficient is equal to the magnitude of Zo which is

equal to
|Zo| = Sqrt( Sqr( Ro) + Sqr( Xo) ).

As you have already deduced, maximum value occurs when the angle of Zo

is
equal to -45 degrees at which Ro = -Xo.

You incorrectly set the terminating inductive reactance XL equal

to -Xo
whereas XL should have been Sqrt( 2 ) times greater.

Now if XL is incorrectly made -Xo then the reflection coefficient

calculates
to Sqrt( 5). Which is where your 5 comes from.

Somewhere in these threads I made the exactly same error myself in a
non-calculating context where it was not likely to be noticed. The

pair of
errors, yours and mine, were probably just coincidental.

I do hope I have not just introduced another. ;o)

You appear to be in an educational establishment. There are two

programs
available from the website below which you may find useful. Download

in a
few seconds and run immediately programs COAXPAIR and RJELINE3. They

have
been written according to classical transmission line formulae,

generally
accurate to all figures displayed and may be used to check other work

which
uses only engineering approximations. There are others also of

educational
value.
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