Frank, when your Kenwood gives you a SWR reading of 1.0 this means you have
a SWR of 1.0 to 1, and since in this case the .0 is not significant, you
have the best match you can get; that is a swr of 1 to 1. As far as I know,
our Kenwood's give us readings of 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, etc., whereas
visual meters give readings much more finite than that. Visual meters give
readings of 1 to 1, 1.1 to 1, 1.2 to 1, 1.3 to 1, etc. I sure wish our voice
readings were that finite, but I am sure delighted to have what we do. It is
sure better than what we used to have, which was nothing at all!
Ron, K8HSY
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Frank Ventura
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 10:09 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Having a Kenwood speak signal strenght
Thanks, maybe I am doing something wrong. When I Tab to the SWR field it al=
most always says 1.0. I am using it without a braille display. Am I doing s=
omething wrong?
Thanks
Frank
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On Behalf Of Jim Shaffer
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2015 9:14 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Having a Kenwood speak signal strenght
True. JJRadio reads the SMeter and SWR for both the 2000 and 590.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Forst
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 2:39 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Having a Kenwood speak signal strenght
Frank,
Sorry but you have it backwards. The TS-2000 does not read the SWR.
What you are hearing is the s-meter: signal strength of s1, s2, etc.
If the signal is loud enough, it will say 10 db or 20 db.
You would measure SWR while in transmit. The 590 has this function, but th=
e 2000 does not.
If you don't have any sort of talking swr meter, I think you can access th=
is function from JJ Radio by KE5AL from this list.
73, Steve KW3A
On 10/4/2015 3:17 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
> Hi all I have the PF key on the front of my TS2000 to speak SWR for=20
>example=3D
> it will say something like "S:1" or "S:2" etc. Is there a means
>of=20 getting=3D
> it say the signal strength for example "10DB" or "20DB"? I thought
>I=20 may h=3D ave done this by accident at some point, or did I dream
that?
> Thanks
> Frank
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