Re: [Amps] Ten-Tec Titan 10 Meter Input SWR

[donroden@hiwaay.net]

If you change the length of the feed coax, you have created a "coax tuner".
1/4 wave or less is all that is required.

Don W4DNR


Quoting Bill Turner <dezrat@outlook.com>:

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> On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:57:42 -0500, W7RY wrote:
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> > Tried different lengths of coax between the amp and the radio and  
> > still no better.
> REPLY:
>
> The length of coax does not affect SWR unless it is extremely long,
> where line loss comes into play. Even then, the effect is to reduce
> SWR, not increase it.
>
> It does affect the impedance the transceiver "sees", but not SWR.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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