John,

Actually, the power reading does increase as the SWR rises.  However, 
what you're reading isn't real power.  The real power is decreasing 
as the reflected power increases, but the meter is giving erroneous 
results.  I don't know why it happens, but it's typical.

Steve

On Sunday 4/9/06 22:00 John Miller wrote:
>that doesn't sound right at all. Hmmmmm.
>
>At 06:28 PM 04/09/2006, you wrote:
> >decrease? or increase?
> >It seems as though with my ldg1, if the match is high, the out put power
> >jumps way way up where it's not suppose to be...the higher the match, the
> >higher the power reading.
> >For instance, when i check swr on my 80M long wire on 160, the match is
> >around 75 to 1, and the power is showing around 250 watts out of a 97 watt
> >transmitter....
> >even a match of 1.5 to one will offset the power by a few watts...not sure
> >if this is just my unit or particular station configuration or not...if i
> >get say a 2 to one match, my output power can sometimes show up to 5 or 6
> >watts higher then what it is actually putting out.
> >73
> >Colin, V A6BKX
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 1:04 PM
> >Subject: external tuners
> >
> >
> > > Hi;
> > > If you are using any type of accessible watt meter you will see 
> the output
> > > power decrease if the tuner can't get a good match.
> > > Rich
> > >