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Re: [Amps] High SWR

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Subject: Re: [Amps] High SWR
From: "Paul Christensen" <w9ac@arrl.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:31:07 -0400
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> SWR is an obsession with the CB set...

VSWR has been an obsession at least since the advent of Lew McCoy's 
Monimatch.  For League members:

http://tinyurl.com/c3ru92

The first mention of VSWR in a QST article came from George Grammer in 1955 
when he reviewed the Jones' Micromatch meter:

http://tinyurl.com/dy84pw

I wasn't around then, but I figure coax must have started replacing balanced 
open line as the feeder of choice around that time.

Paul, W9AC

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