[Amps] Ten-Tec Titan 10 Meter Input SWR

[Catherine James]

Bill,

I'm puzzled at the idea that changing "the impedance the transceiver sees" wouldn't affect SWR. Isn't SWR the ratio between the impedance seen at the measurement point vs. the desired impedance at that point? I must not be understanding your comment.

Anyway, you can certainly change impedance by changing the length of coax, provided that the coax used does not have the same impedance as the impedance at the termination point.  So if you have a 50 ohm load fed with 50 ohm coax, it does not matter how long the coax may be, but if you use 75 ohm coax for part of the feedline, the impedance seen at the transmitter will vary with the length of the 75 ohm section.

The matching section does not have to be a quarter wavelength long.

73,
Cathy
N5WVR
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On Sat, 6/10/17, Bill Turner <dezrat at outlook.com> wrote:

  >Tried different lengths of coax between the amp and the radio and still no better.
 
 REPLY:
 
 The length of coax does not affect SWR unless it is extremely long,
 where line loss comes into play. Even then, the effect is to reduce
 SWR, not increase it.
 
 It does affect the impedance the transceiver "sees", but not SWR. 
 
 73, Bill W6WRT