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If you have a higher SWR, watt meters report more power being transmitted. Its not just the reflected power with SWR that will cause that, but the re-reflected power as well. If you had a 2-needle SWR meter that I mentioned in a prior post, you would see that when SWR goes up, your forward power also goes up. The reason is your reflected power gets re-reflected by the radio/amplifier and heads back towards the antenna adding itself to your transmitted power. The only accurate way to measure power output is to transmit into a dummy load.

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[QUOTE="The DB, post: 535709, member: 21346"] If you have a higher SWR, watt meters report more power being transmitted. Its not just the reflected power with SWR that will cause that, but the re-reflected power as well. If you had a 2-needle SWR meter that I mentioned in a prior post, you would see that when SWR goes up, your forward power also goes up. The reason is your reflected power gets re-reflected by the radio/amplifier and heads back towards the antenna adding itself to your transmitted power. The only accurate way to measure power output is to transmit into a dummy load. [URL='http://hittman.us']The DB[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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