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Wandering SWR?

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Here's something that's been puzzling me for some time.



When checking my SWR's on Ch1 through Ch40 I'm getting 1.4-1.5; pretty good considering my antenna's location. But as I go higher in freq. strange things happen. At about 27.400, the meter starts (when I key) at about 1.6, but after a couple of seconds it starts to rise, and ends up around 2.6-2.8. This occurs on up through the band (I don't usually transmit above 27.4) with the stopping point getting progressively higher as I get further from the antenna's resonant freq.



What's up? Is this a grounding issue?



BTW, I'm sitting still and have my amp set for about 100W key, I don't have this problem when the amp is off.


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