I can understand all you are saying but in this case it is am impulsive
wideband signal (500 - 2.5 GHz), with a defined start and finish, caused by,
say things like car ignition systems and faulty thermostats. Surely a signal
like that would have all frequency components starting and ending at a
zero-crossing and then have full cycles, wouldn't it? Or maybe not because
of the multipath effects? Do you believe this can be the case in my
situation?

Thank you.



"Galilea" wrote in message
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Hello, thank you for reading this post.

When analysing wideband impulse signals from a wideband antenna I have
realised that the average signal magnitude is not zero. I have thought
this
is because the reactance of the antenna at different frequencies varies
and
since it is a wideband antenna there can be energy measured since it is
only
for an extremely small period of time of 2-4 us. However, I am not sure
and
would greatly appreciate the views of this newsgroup.