Hello Colin,  I had a  problem like this myself and got in contact with 
Dwayne Kincaid at the address below and had it sorted out.
Dwayne Kincaid

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LDG Electronics, Inc.
1445 Parran Road
St. Leonard, MD 20685
Phone: 410-586-2177
FAX: 410-586-8475
http://www.ldgelectronics.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: external tuners


> decrease? or increase?
> It seems as though with my ldg1, if the match is high, the out put power
> jumps way way up where it's not suppose to be...the higher the match, the
> higher the power reading.
> For instance, when i check swr on my 80M long wire on 160, the match is
> around 75 to 1, and the power is showing around 250 watts out of a 97 watt
> transmitter....
> even a match of 1.5 to one will offset the power by a few watts...not sure
> if this is just my unit or particular station configuration or not...if i
> get say a 2 to one match, my output power can sometimes show up to 5 or 6
> watts higher then what it is actually putting out.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 1:04 PM
> Subject: external tuners
>
>
>> Hi;
>> If you are using any type of accessible watt meter you will see the 
>> output
>> power decrease if the tuner can't get a good match.
>> Rich
>>
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