Mike, Could it be that the tranmitter is oscilating wild sometimes, in that case the frequency can be out of the usable band for the arial, and is the load far away from 50 ohm. (Had that once with a 10 meter transmitter, good on dummy. started oscilating when the SWR was very temporary > 1.5, had to disconnect the power to stop it oscillating.....) It woul be helpfull to tune with a scope and a counter connected to the arial signal (not directly but via a small condensor or so) to see if this idea cuts any grass. What does the SDR on other antennas, what on dummy. I do not know if a souncard can make these difficulties. I think not. 73 peter groeten Peter petervn(a)hetnet.nl <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; pa0pvn(a)hetnet.nl <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; pa0pvn(a)gmail.com ; pa0pvn(a)amsat.org .
________________________________ From: k5nu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 28-1-2007 14:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] sdr swr Peter, I appreciate your reply to my message. I am very nearly ready to sell the SDR and move on. It has driven me crazy. I have sent it to Austin twice, but they can't seem to find anything wrong with it. Back home, and it is very erratic in performance on the transmit side. ---snip---- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070128/0d720d66/attachment.html _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/