Cecil Moore wrote:

Owen Duffy wrote:
If your transmitter was delivering 500W to the feedline, about 100W is
lost in the feeder.

With a 1.7:1 SWR???? Maybe you should reprogram your calculator to take
the square root???? The ratio of Pref/Pfor for an SWR of 1.7:1 is 0.067.
Methinks you might be using the voltage reflection coefficient?

Sorry, I read that as 100W lost in the amplifier. Macular Degeneration
strikes again.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp