{"id":1303,"date":"2021-08-16T22:43:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w8jxn.org\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2021-08-16T22:43:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:43:26","slug":"what-is-input-impedance-anyhow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"What is Input Impedance, Anyhow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As amateur radio operators we typically look at any input impedance specification and think 50 Ohms. But what is 50 Ohms? Buried within the whole topic of input impedance is a &#8220;characteristic impedance.&#8221; At this point we typically lose amateurs thinking we are moving into rocket science. But this stuff is really simple as you will see in the 3 minute video shown below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Characteristic Impedance  Not Rocket Science\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cnhfjBr86aM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As amateur radio operators we typically look at any input impedance specification and think 50 Ohms. But what is 50 Ohms? Buried within the whole topic of input impedance is a &#8220;characteristic impedance.&#8221; At this point we typically lose amateurs thinking we are moving into rocket science. But this stuff is really simple as you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-electromagnetic-theory","category-physics","category-theory"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"N8QM","author_link":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/?author=2"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/?cat=11\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Antennas<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/?cat=13\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Electromagnetic Theory<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/?cat=12\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Physics<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/?cat=9\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Theory<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Antennas<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Electromagnetic Theory<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Physics<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Theory<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 16, 2021","modified":"Updated on August 16, 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 16, 2021 22:43","modified":"Updated on August 16, 2021 22:43"},"featured_img_caption":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w8jxn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}