On Sat, 01 May 2004 17:03:26 GMT, Jan Panteltje
wrote:

On a sunny day (Sat, 01 May 2004 14:19:59 +0100) it happened Paul Burridge
wrote in
:

Hi,

I have a spare RF signal generator that has an unmarked output from a
type of socket I've never seen before. What's the simplest way of
establishing its output impedance? I've had a few ideas but no doubt
someone out there will know of something better, since I always seem
to end up making unnecessary work for myself.
Any suggestions?

Load it with 50 Ohms, and measure output voltage, remove load and measure
again.
If it is half, it is 50, else do the math.

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Without doing a conjugate match and accounting for the impedance of
the voltmeter and the load, the best he'll be able to do is _assume_
that what he measures is what he's really got.

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John Fields