Steve, Theoretically, 2:1 would have you "losing" 11 percent ofyour TX power due to reflection/mismatch. With your 4.9W,that would only be about 1/2 W. Doesn't seem like much tobe worrying about. Polarization should be more of a concern. GL/73, Bob K8BL
On Thursday, June 13, 2019, 2:47:29 PM EDT, AI9IN via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org 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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