I hope you got your answer. Any watt meter, will report agrogate power, so
that forward and reflected power are combined in the resulting reading.
The watt meter gives you the SWR where it is, so if you are using an
internal tuner for example, the meter being ahead of the tuner, is not
seeing what the transmitter output behind the tuner is seeing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Mann" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 2:54 PM
Subject: using a tw-1?
> Hi all,
> I've just gotten a tw-1, have it connected, and the thing is talking as it
> should. However, I'm quite startled of the inaccuracy of the readings
> that i am getting. Sometimes, I will see my antenna 250:1 etc. This
> doesn't make any sense at all. Sometimes, I will see my power output at
> 130 watts when my radio actually puts out only 100. I'm using this with a
> Kenwood ts2000. Can you help? I'm not expecting this to be as accurate
> as a bird watt meter, but I would imagine it should be relatively
> accurate. Also just to clarify, you can just hit the forward, reverse, or
> swr button while using an SSB transmission?
> Thanks much,
> Justin
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