Which meter to watch.....(some combination of both)?

[K0RGR]

What does high SWR mean? How big a difference is there between the two? With the amp on, what you're seeing at the radio is the SWR of the input circuit to the amp. If you tune the tuner for a good SWR with the amp on and it goes haywire when you turn the amp off, that
is something else. If you're going to use the amp, ignore the meter on the radio unless it's very high. As I recall, the input SWR on some bands on my SB200 was less than desirable.

[koØm]

What does high SWR mean? How big a difference is there between the two? With the amp on, what you're seeing at the radio is the SWR of the input circuit to the amp. If you tune the tuner for a good SWR with the amp on and it goes haywire when you turn the amp off, that
is something else. If you're going to use the amp, ignore the meter on the radio unless it's very high. As I recall, the input SWR on some bands on my SB200 was less than desirable.

"High SWR" is above 2:1 on the radio indicator, which is the point where the radio (looking through the standby amp ) starts to want to go into "protect mode" by decreasing the power output.

I have a 50 ohm non-radiating "Cantenna" that tell me that all the bands on the radio are O.K.

On all the other bands that I use the tuner on, the SWR meter in the radio will correspond to the SWR on the external meter. "Something" that "I" am not seeing causes my radio NOT to want to tune on the 40 meter band.

I need some new "Coax and Antenna" grease, the 40 meter portion of mine has worn off, you know what i mean? :-?