[IRCA] Time Domain Reflectometry

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:22 PM 7/20/2007 -0700, you wrote:

>I actually did post to this group on March 10 some follow-up info from
>John Price.  Checking back, here's what I said:
>"KIRO had gone off that night to install a filter to deal with one of
>the mixing products that KIRO was creating with one of the other 50 kw
>transmitters on Vashon Island.  They also tweaked the common point on
>the antenna system.  He mentioned that the ticking sound some of us
>heard happened when they did a sweep test (which involves sending low
>powered r.f. pulses into the antenna and measuring how much comes back)."
>
Cousin Bruce,

The subject line is the name of what they may have been doing. It is
often used to find where a fault is in a coax. The bursts of wave is
all that is necessary, and keeps QRM down.

Cholly Tuner



>  Charles A Taylor, WD4INP

  Greenville, North Carolina 


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