12:1 to 15:1,  not many tuners will help that, you have to get that down. 
You can tune something that high all you want, it will never radiate near 
like it should. You can't transmit in to that that high though, you'll blow 
the finals in the radio fast. that's why the radio's putting out 23 watts, 
it's cutting back, but if the SWR is really that high, even that's enough 
power to kill it fast. IF the antenna is supposed to work on that band, 
something's very very wrong.

Do you know who the RI station was off hand?  I probably know him, in fact, 
I'm sure of it, I'm just curious who it was if you might know.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gery Gaubert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 9:31 AM
Subject: ic751a


> 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