[Amps] High SWR

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 23 09:13:58 PDT 2009


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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:50:32 -0400, Scott McGrath
<mcgrath at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:

>Short answer is the only thing SWR is good for is determining at what 
>point the RF voltages induced by the mismatch will damage your 
>transmitter system.  

REPLY:

I would add one more thing SWR is good for: Monitoring your antenna
system. Whatever the SWR is, as long as it doesn't change things are
ok. 

73, Bill W6WRT


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