antennas

Care and Feeding of SWRs

KENT BRITAIN

For some years, there has been considerable speculation about those tiny SWRs crawling around on our antennas and soaking up RF energy. Do they have six legs? Do they have eight legs? Microscopic studies have shown that they are indeed related to arachnids and thus have eight legs. But they don’t necessarily put them all down on your feedline at the same time. Get those radio waves going up and down the antenna and it burns their feet! They lift up one foot, then another, and when they have seven legs in the air and are standing on only one foot, your SWR is 1 and you get out best! Of course, this brings up the question of with only eight legs, how can you have an SWR higher than…

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CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023

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