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"My second claim is when the mismatch condition at the coax destination, i.e. antenna that may result in significant radiation from the coax itself." Responses already show this is untrue. Radiation from the external coax surface comes from launching a signal on that surface. Good coax does not let signals penetrate its shield. A mismatch between a transmission line and its attached antenna affects both transmitting and receiving from the antenna, but does not launch signals on the outside of the coax. A mismatched transmitting antenna does not accept all available power incident upon it and reflects a portion back toward the sender depending on how bad the mismatch is. A mismatched receiving antenna has a source resistance (radiation resistance) and may also have reactance. A conjugate match is needed for maximum power transfer to the feedline. The mismatched antenna will either not extract all the power available to it in the passing wave or else reradiate more than 50%, (with full extraction, the minimum possible reradiation is with a perfectly matched antenna). Consider a short circuit across the antenna feedpoint. 100% of the energy extracted by the antenna is reradiated. Consider an open circuit at the antenna feedpoint. Little if any power is extracted from the wave sweeping the receiving antenna. The most power is received by a receiving antenna when its radiation resistance is matched to the Zo of the feedline. In this case, 50% is the best possible received carrier power in the receiver input. Nobody tells the antenna it is a receiving antenna. It is a conductor carrying a current, never mind where it came from, so it is going to radiate. When matched resistances are involved in source (radiation resistance) and load (Zo matched), the power is split 50-50 between source and load. The radiation resistance, is the source resistance for the receiver load, and it represents the reradiation from the reeiving atenna. 50% of the received power accepted by the load is the best possible performance. Mismatch means less. Either less power accepted by the antenna or more power reradiated by by the antenna. A transmatch can make the feedline appear as a matching load at the antenna junction for receiving. If matched for both transmitting and receiving, all available power will be transmitted and received. Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI |
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