Thanks Steve,
I think you may be right.
I found my dummy load (hooray). ?I measured it with my VNA and got 1.07. ?I then put that into my QMX and at first got a set reading if 10 but disconnected everything and tried again and now I am constantly getting a swr of 1.15 on my dummy load.
I am really happy about that.
So it seems that the antenna I have or indeed the coax is causing me issues. ?I will setup another one later that I know for a fact works with both my ICOM 7600 and my Yaesu FT857D and I will test with that.
Thanks again at least I have hope again that I will be able to activate some SOTA and some POTA here in Italy.