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I may be mistaken as i've only been fooling around with radiosw since the 60's but isn't SWR actualy the relation ship between forward and reflective power. if you put a bird wat meter in line you have fwd and reflective settings and that corosponds with a SWR on a chart provided by bird. after all SWR stand for standing wave ratio. So if you have a low swr how can you have a high refletive reading put an mfj analyzer on the antenna its self with out a mount and see if the antenna it's self is resonate at a given freq. then mount the antena and see what he reading is on the same freq once mounted it should be the same all things being equal. if there is a differance you have ground trouble or coax trouble. as far as ratio most any good radio or amp should work as long as the swr is below ay 2:1 match the lower the better of course as the ratio goes up the less power actually goes out the end of the antenna.

<blockquote data-quote="kd5drx" data-source="post: 51671" data-attributes="member: 1172">Re: fI may be mistaken as i&#039;ve only been fooling around with radiosw since the 60&#039;s but isn&#039;t SWR actualy the relation ship between forward and reflective power. if you put a bird wat meter in line you have fwd and reflective settings and that corosponds with a SWR on a chart provided by bird. after all SWR stand for standing wave ratio. So if you have a low swr how can you have a high refletive reading put an mfj analyzer on the antenna its self with out a mount and see if the antenna it&#039;s self is resonate at a given freq. then mount the antena and see what he reading is on the same freq once mounted it should be the same all things being equal. if there is a differance you have ground trouble or coax trouble. as far as ratio most any good radio or amp should work as long as the swr is below ay 2:1 match the lower the better of course as the ratio goes up the less power actually goes out the end of the antenna.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kd5drx, post: 51671, member: 1172"] [b]Re: f[/b] I may be mistaken as i've only been fooling around with radiosw since the 60's but isn't SWR actualy the relation ship between forward and reflective power. if you put a bird wat meter in line you have fwd and reflective settings and that corosponds with a SWR on a chart provided by bird. after all SWR stand for standing wave ratio. So if you have a low swr how can you have a high refletive reading put an mfj analyzer on the antenna its self with out a mount and see if the antenna it's self is resonate at a given freq. then mount the antena and see what he reading is on the same freq once mounted it should be the same all things being equal. if there is a differance you have ground trouble or coax trouble. as far as ratio most any good radio or amp should work as long as the swr is below ay 2:1 match the lower the better of course as the ratio goes up the less power actually goes out the end of the antenna. [/QUOTE]

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