Hi Tom

If you really feel like not spending money on a SWR meter you might like
to try the horrible but simple approach of making one out of a piece of
RG213 with the PVC stripped off, and thin teflon wire pushed under the
shield in the same mechanical arrangement of a SWR meter. A couple of
shottkeys, capacitors and resistors and you can read VSWR on a multimeter!

I'd even venture to suggest that replacing the line section in a CB
meter with this arrangement would yield a much more useful higher
frequency device. (And use BNC's or N sockets...)

I can see you all cringing!

Cheers Bob W5/VK2YQA

Tom Corker wrote:

Christian Treldal

Thanks for that. I'm thinking about going with the design you gave.
I'm also guessing I'll need to tune the antenna using an SWR meter. A
lot of the ones on ebay (UK) are listed as CB SWR meters. Will these
be OK for the 2m band?