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5. Impedance Matching.
By David Knight and Nigel Williams.

Contents
Part 1: Basic principles. Z-plane operations. Series reactance and resistance. Parallel impedance. Admittance, conductance, and susceptance. The equation of a circle. Parallel Resistance (constant susceptance). Parallel reactance (constant conductance). Transformers ('constant' phase). Impedance matching strategies. Z-plane regions.

Part 2: Popular matching networks. The Pi-network. Fully variable Pi-match. L-match. Switched inductor Pi-match. Tapped inductor with interpolation capacitor. T-match. Reciprocal L-network. Switched inductor T-match. Differential-T match. "Ultimate" Transmatch? SPC Transmatch.

Part 3: L-network solutions. Overview. Idealised network solutions. Component range calculations. Lossy networks. Efficiency.

Part 4: Practicalities of matching network design. Materials and components. Variable inductors. General considerations.

References.

Appendix:
MFJ989C Versatuner modifications
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The SGC 230 Automatic ATU.
Collins 180L-series atomatic antenna tuners.

© D W Knight 2004 - 2009. © N Williams. 1983 and 2005.
David Knight and Nigel Williams assert their right to be recognised as the authors of this work.

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