Thanks for all the good info. One thing though. The SWR creep may be a “clear
indication“ that I am using the wrong balun, but that ain’t the case. I am
using a 1:1 Guanella balun, 17 turns RG-58 on whatever torroid Rick, DJ0IP
recommended. The antenna I noticed the “creep“ with is a 40 foot vertical
dipole, which has quite low impedance on 40m and 80m even without the “help” of
a 4:1 balun.
My purpose in asking my question was to ascertain whether it is safe to run my
set up at 100 W despite the creep. I can easily tweak a dial to retune when
running digital. And a creep never rises past 1.4:1, and usually less. I don’t
care about perfection, I just want to make sure I’m not risking blowing any
disc capacitors. My educated guess is that everything is fine, I simply wanted
a reality check here.
Rest assured, if I was going to run higher power, I would be making the
suggested modifications. But that’s not really in the cards right now.
--Peter, KD7MW
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