Hi Jerry.

I'd try to do something better for an antenna, before you blow the finals 
on that radio.  An antenna tuner might save your finals, but with a 
mismatch like that you will probably have fairly poor efficiency.  What 
type of antenna do you have, and what frequency were you trying to use it on?

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 08:31 AM 6/22/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>Steve and everyone who helped.  I did make a partial contact last nght.
>The band conditions were going from bad to worse last night.  The
>partial contact repeated my call but after that I couldn't pick him out
>of all of the noise  There was also a guy in Rhode Island that I wanter
>to reach but every time he completed a contact there was a pile up.  Any
>way, I'll try again tonight.  I did get the watt meter to work sort of.
>I put theradio in rtty and flipped the transmit switch and got swr that
>varied from 12:1 to 15:1.  Forward and reflected power would get no
>higher than about 23 watts.  I wonder if an antena tuner would help
>this? =20
>
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