On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 19:33, Hans J Albertsson <hans.j.albertsson@...>
wrote:
A loss is a negative gain.
So, saying a return loss is negative simply means you are expressing that
loss as a formal gain.
Don't overdo the besserwisserness of your insights.
I agree with the original poster. The return loss of a passive device
should be a positive number. There was an article about this by the editor
of one of the IEEE journals.
Dave.
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