Anyone know if it hurts anything to leave a swr and watt meter hooked up while transmitting?
Anyone know if it hurts anything to leave a swr and watt meter hooked up while transmitting?
Assuming the meter is of decent quality (low insertion loss), it doesn't hurt a thing.Originally Posted by kk4fpx
I have several Kenwood SW-2000s with sampling heads that are attached to various VHF/UHF transceivers, HF transceivers and amplifiers in the shack. They're never disconnected. If I had a Bird 43 or other lab-grade instrument it wouldn't be used as a "shack accessory", however.
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Mine are built into my tuner and so are always hooked up when I'm transmitting. Never hurt anything. I think it's a good idea to keep one hooked up, in fact—it will help you spot a potential problem with your antenna system before you fry the finals on your radio.
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If it's not hooked up when you transmit, it doesn't tell you anything.
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Well, with these new fangled solid state finals you gotta worry. With the kind of finals I use all you need to do is look at them. If you see the plates glowing bright orange-yellow it might be a sign that something is a bit out of tune. If they are just glowing a ruddy cherry red your good to go and you can probaly lean on them a bit harder..
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Or you're running a 4x1 WAY over it's limits on linear AM! Such a pretty glow!
Go ahead and leave it in line all the time. Good monitor for what's going on out there.
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:rofl:Has anybody told you you're such a smart-ass, you could sit on an ice cream cone and tell us the flavor?
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