Re: Wave phase reversal on reflection

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

Right you are.  I mixed  discontinuous matches with continuous ones.  The mechanical wave
demo. (Bell Labs.?) uses a (quasi) continuous one to couple two lengths with different
velocities.

bc



brian whatcott wrote:

> At 14:41 4/24/00 -0700, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> > ...
> > Quarter wave transformers (for a particular wave length)
> > may largely eliminate it by
> > introducing just the correct addn'l reflection(s).
> > E.g. antenna matching, anti-reflection
> > coatings, and acoustic horns....
> > bc
>
> It seems to me that acoustic horns are rather closer to
> continuous impedence transformers which offer the advantage
>  of wider functional bandwidth if the impedence change is
> tapered over several wavelengths.
>  For a twin wire feeder, what could be easier than increasing
> the seperation of the wires? This was a balanced feed for a
> dipole, for example - the 'delta match'.
>
> brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
> Altus OK