[R-390] Input impedance of R390A
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Sat, 7 Sep 2002 13:48:17 EDT
Sorry, but you're not quite right. The best power transfer is always when
you have a conjugate impedance match. You might get twice the voltage with a
much larger Rx impedance, but the power delivered to the Rx is voltage
squared over R, where R is the Rx input resistance. R must be much greater
than 50 ohms to double the voltage. Try a few examples. The noise power
from the antenna scales the same as the signal power from the antenna, so no
benefit to S/N. Sometime you can get a better NF by mismatching the antenna,
but this depends on the details of the Rx first stage.
Ed