[AMPS] Have Cake & Eat it too

[Jonathan Kaplan]

At 06:56 PM 9/9/99 -0700, Vic Rosenthal wrote:
>
>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).
>

But that's not what's been happening. The SWR rises with the AMP Power, but
remains
the same (and well behaved) whenI run barefoot. Go figure!

Jonathan


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