"VE2CJW" wrote in message
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I can hear the repeater very well, in fact, it comes in at S9+ all the
time. I noticed that my SWR is around 2.5, I wonder what can cause this.

Mike.


If the repeater is S9+ on your receiver, unless the repeater is runing very
high power (300 watts +)
you should be able to hit it with a few watts. Sounds as if you need to
take your rig to another place and see if you can hit the repeater at all.
Maybe the repeater needs a subaudio tone to activate it and you do not have
it programmed in ?
You did not say what kind or how much coax you have between the rig and the
antenna. A SWR of 2.5 seems way too much. If you had about 100 feet (30
meters) of rg-8 and a very bad antenna, the swr would not be too much
higher.