[TowerTalk] SWR variations with power

Richard Karlquist richard at karlquist.com
Mon Nov 4 21:09:49 EST 2013


On 2013-11-04 15:13, Grant Saviers wrote:
> Any ferrite baluns, ununs, chokes on the feedline or at the antenna?
> At 2K power levels you could be heating them up (or saturating

I did actually see this once when I put in a DC grounding
coil on a vertical in a hurry and the VSWR would go haywire
at over 100 watts.  However, this was a really inadequate
coil.

The SWR meter on my FT-1000 has always been inaccurate at QRP
levels, the opposite problem.

Rick N6RK


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