Mark, your meter is falsely reading cumulative power.  Forward plus 
reflected power.  Therefore, the higher the SWR reading, forward plus 
reflected seems higher to the meter, than forward with no reflected.
Your antenna is long, First of all, make a quarter wave long ground that 
will put the transmitter in the middle of the system, rather than at the hot 
end.  Then trim your long wire until you get the desired results.  A small 
tuner might be a simpler solution than trimming the radiating wire.  The 
cold wire doesn't have to be stretched out.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mark Torgerson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:50 PM
Subject: SWR's And Power


> Hi
>    I am taking a few minutes away from my college studies to look at my =
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> antenna. It is a quarter wave wire for 75 meters. Well, at least it =
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> be. Right now at the top end of the band it is running a 8.3 to one SWR. =
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> the bottom of 80 meters it is running a 3.8 SWR. What puzzles me is that =
> as=20
> the SWR goes down the forward power is also going down. What is going on =
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> here?
>     On another thought. I am sure people will wonder why I didn't put =
> up a=20
> dipole. Well, to keep the antenna on the property, I had to put an =
> insulator=20
> part way down the quarter wave wire and bend it in a horizontal L. So =
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> can imagine what a dipole would look like. Hi Hi.
>
> God bless,
> Mark
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