I guess we live in different worlds. My 10m-20m beams have an SWR <1.2:1 anywhere in the band. I designed them this way and no luck is involved. the SWR is a little higher at the top of the band on my lower band antennas but certainly not in the 3:1+ range you are referring to. A 1kw+ Elecraft solid state amp that could tolerate 2:1 or 2.5:1 with no foldback would be so awesome!
John KK9A from: brian alsopb Tue Mar 28 19:30:31 EDT 2017 KAT500 handles a much wider SWR range (like to about 10:1). Why do you assume people are lucky enough to have antennas with no more than a 3:1 SWR across the ham bands? Yes, higher SWR's require beefed up components but welcome to the real world. 73 de Brian/K3KO ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
