On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:33:28 -0800, Dr. Anton T. Squeegee
wrote:

In article .com,
says...

sorry to have to ask but what is SWR? My guess is sound to [somthing]
ratio?

Oh dear... Someone didn't pay attention in license class...

SWR = Standing Wave Ratio. Put simply, it has to do with how good
of a load the antenna presents to the transmitter, and how efficiently
it will couple the transmitter's energy to the atmosphere.

Nothing to do with coupling the Tx energy to the "atmosphere". Terminating the
line in a resistor of the line's charactertistic impedance will present a nice
SWR and radiate very little.