After reading the manual and getting a bit more comfy with the rig... I've notice a rather strange thing on transmit on any band, meter set to read SWR the SWR shows really wrong values.. like 9:1 sw
I notice that the SWR indication on the radio does not seem to follow on SSB. However, in TUNE it tracks quite well up to about 5:1 or so. This has been a comment about the power reading ability of t
This was an issue which I wrote comments about at the Yahoo Omni VII group. John Henry, of TenTec, later had a new firmware revision which corrected this issue of the SWR meter showing 9:1 at times.
Hi Mike, Yes, I have some thoughts, but they will not help you fix the problem. Thoughts follow: Any SWR meter that directly displays SWR, without you having to manually set the forward power to full
bob and the gang.. the problem is in the tune position. press tune and the swr reads 5.6 to 1 or 9.99 to 1 or 1.1 to 1 every time I press tune, I get another reading... you should see it dance in cw.
I would suspect a poor connection or connector somewhere in the path from the reflected side of the wattmeter current transformer, or possibly around the reflected diode itself. Phil Chambley, Sr. k4
My Omni VII, using TUNE, reads a constant 1.2 SWR no matter how many times I press tune. Any chance you have a loose PL-259 somewhere or bad solder connection on the antenna path? Carl Moreschi N4PY
absolutely NOT!! While the Omni VII shows a 9:9 to 1 swr the bird watt meter won't even deflect. push the tune button again and I see 4:5 to 1 swr--bird shows zero reflected power and there's no "hig