[Amps] High SWR

Paul Christensen w9ac at arrl.net
Thu Apr 23 11:31:07 PDT 2009


> SWR is an obsession with the CB set...

VSWR has been an obsession at least since the advent of Lew McCoy's 
Monimatch.  For League members:

http://tinyurl.com/c3ru92

The first mention of VSWR in a QST article came from George Grammer in 1955 
when he reviewed the Jones' Micromatch meter:

http://tinyurl.com/dy84pw

I wasn't around then, but I figure coax must have started replacing balanced 
open line as the feeder of choice around that time.

Paul, W9AC



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