In article ,
Tam/WB2TT wrote:
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When device people talk about "matching", they mean matching the load to
what the transistor wants to see, which is not the conjugate of the output
impedance.

Actually, in this case, I was speaking of matching the transmitter's
output to the load. The transmitter already contains gawd knows what L
and C components etc. The OP has a completed transmitter and a hunk of
wire. If he matches the wire to what the transmitter wants to see, the
transmitter will be happy. If he causes a reactive current to flow that
the designer did not design for he will cause added heating in the output
device. If the designer did a good job, the transmitter will protect its
output devices and thus end up producing less power.

Also if he makes the real component of the impedance vary from what the
designer intended, the output power will decrease. Which direction gets
limited by the Vcc and which by the protection circuit depends on the
collection of Ls and Cs inside the transmitter.




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