[AMPS] Have Cake & Eat it too

Vic Rosenthal rakefet@rakefet.com
Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:56:25 -0700


Jonathan Kaplan wrote:
> 
> In conclusion, it would seem that all of you are telling me that adjusting
> the Amp
> is only for proper loading and thus Maximum output, NOT for SWR! Is that
> correct?

Absolutely!  With a perfect swr meter one would expect the SWR reading to remain
the same as you increase power from 1 watt to 1 megawatt (at least until the
coax starts to melt).

73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA

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