are you sure it's hooked up correctly?
with the meter buttons towards you, the radio should be hooked up to the 
left hand jack, and the antenna to the right.
Also, do you have a tuner other than the internal tuner inline?
If you are getting wild readings like this, then perhaps something is very 
wrong with your feedline or antenna.
That's what these meters are for after all lol.
Do a check on the ts2000:
press and hold for a short moment the antenna tuner button, the bottom 
button on the right in the six pack located below the power and function 
buttons.
It should either begin tuning, or give you an A, dit dah in cw...if the 
tuner begins to click, let it tune...if it won't tune, or if you get the 
letters SWR in CW then your antenna has a greater than 3 to 1 match...this 
means it's not tuned properly, there is some other problem, or you have 
issues with the feedline.
Also check the patch cable from the radio to the meter...often times this 
can be an issue.

73
Colin, V A6BS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Mann" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: using a tw-1?


> I'm hearing something like 150 watts on the forward power, and when i hit 
> the swr button, I will hear sometimes, 28, and250, which is not what I 
> would associate with swr.