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Old November 19th 03, 08:48 PM
Tarmo Tammaru
 
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Your transmitter is designed to drive a load of 50 Ohms. This corresponds to
an SWR of 1:1 if you are using 50 Ohm coax. A particular transmitte may very
well put out more power into , say, 30 Ohms than 50, but it might not be
linear, or the output transistors could overheat.

Tam/WB2TT

"nathan" wrote in message
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I have always heard that this is true, and that I should tune antennas
for maximum field strength and not for minimum SWR. Why wouldn't they
occur at the same time?

Nathan