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Your not "wasting" ANY watts!
Even at a 2.0:1 VSWR power transfer to antenna is 90+%

SWR POWER LOSS TABLE (firestik.com)

As shown in the table @ 2.0:1 ratio... a 400 watt transmitter will still radiate 356 watts...DUH...
NOBODY will ever know that on the receive end!!!!

Same as trying to get every last watt out by getting the SWR below 1.5:1 (OMG that's totally unacceptable!!!)
Nobody but the guy fixated on his watt meter will loose a contact running "only" 500 watts vs. 800 watts!
The receiving station will never know the difference

<blockquote data-quote="BJ radionut" data-source="post: 772919" data-attributes="member: 7026">Your not &quot;wasting&quot; ANY watts!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL&nbsp; &nbsp; :ROFLMAO:"&nbsp; data-smilie="22"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" />Even at a 2.0:1 VSWR power transfer to antenna is 90+%<a href="http://www.firestik.com/Tech_Docs/SWRLOSS.htm" target="_blank">SWR POWER LOSS TABLE (firestik.com)</a>As shown in the table @ 2.0:1 ratio... a 400 watt transmitter will still radiate&nbsp; 356 watts...DUH...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL&nbsp; &nbsp; :ROFLMAO:"&nbsp; data-smilie="22"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" />NOBODY will ever know that on the receive end!!!!Same as trying to get every last watt out by getting the SWR below 1.5:1 (OMG that&#039;s totally unacceptable!!!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:"&nbsp; data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />) Nobody but the guy fixated on his watt meter will loose a contact running &quot;only&quot; 500 watts vs. 800 watts! The receiving station will never know the difference<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL&nbsp; &nbsp; :ROFLMAO:"&nbsp; data-smilie="22"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="BJ radionut, post: 772919, member: 7026"] [B] Your not "wasting" [/B]ANY watts!:ROFLMAO: Even at a 2.0:1 VSWR power transfer to antenna is 90+% [URL='http://www.firestik.com/Tech_Docs/SWRLOSS.htm']SWR POWER LOSS TABLE (firestik.com)[/URL] As shown in the table @ 2.0:1 ratio... a 400 watt transmitter will still radiate 356 watts...DUH...:eek::ROFLMAO: [B][I][U]NOBODY will ever know that on the receive end!!!! [/U][/I][/B] Same as trying to get every last watt out by getting the SWR below 1.5:1 (OMG that's totally unacceptable!!!:mad:) Nobody but the guy fixated on his watt meter will loose a contact running [B]"only"[/B] 500 watts vs. 800 watts! The receiving station will never know the difference:ROFLMAO: [/QUOTE]

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