Not sure which statement that would be.
I've been making lots of them.
A resistive SWR meter assumes that the transmitter wants to see a 50 ohm resistive load,
but the transmitter will not necessarily work best at exactly 50 ohms.
For example, assume we are operating at 30mhz and there is a long trace to the antenna connector.
The antenna system would want to have a little bit of capactive reactance to counter the inductance of that trace.
Not much point to worry about such minor issues.
We just need a reasonably good match between transmitter and the antenna system,
doesn't have to be perfect.? You could spend a career trying to understand everything
that could go slightly wrong here, many people do.
Jerry, KE7ER
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 07:45 AM, Evan Hand wrote:
Jerry,
A resistive bridge SWR meter should not work if this statement is true.
Am I missing something here?
73
Evan
AC9TU
