Thank you to the folks who have helped me with this. My gear is working fine so I guess I need to concentrate on my technique.
(That's never a bad idea anyway.)
Steve AI9IN
On 2019-06-13 2:47 pm, AI9IN via AMSAT-BB wrote:
I've been having trouble getting into the FM satellites lately. It's the same rig I've been using for a couple of years and I have not had problems before. I bought a digital meter to measure power out from the handhelds and to measure SWR on the antennas. According to the meter I'm getting 4.9 W out of the handhelds, which is expected. For SWR I've got values of 1.7 at 70 cm and 2.0 at 2 m. The antenna is an Arrow.
Are those acceptable SWR values? Should I try to get them lower? Can you even adjust the tuning on an Arrow antenna?
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