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The Myth of SWR

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See the newer version of this video on this channel which adds clarification and a better demo - "The Myth of SWR 2." Clarification at 1:56 - Unless SWR levels are extreme with high loss coax. The amount of misinformation about this topic, even among experienced ham radio operators, is staggering. Here's a sample of what's coming which may make your head explode. This is from antenna engineer Walt Maxwell, W2DU. "From the viewpoint of amateur communications, it can be shown mathematically and easily verified in practice that the difference in power transferred through any coaxial line with an SWR of 2 to 1 is imperceptible compared to having a perfectly matched 1.0-to-1 termination, no matter what the length or attenuation of the line, and that many typical coaxial feed lines that we use in the hf bands with an SWR of 3 or 4, and often as high as 5 to 1, have an equally imperceptible difference." See the references below. More ham radio "old wives tales" to come. https://www.k3emd.com/downloads/Reflect.pdf https://na0tc.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=technical:swr_and_reflected_power.pdf http://zs6wr.co.za/documents/SWR.pdf ARRL Antenna Book under "The Conjugate Matching Theorem"

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