I do not know. The meter should show it mghz range.

Yes. Less power is safer for equipment if SWR is high.

You need to be more specific with your question. Were you talking about a Yagi?

Tahoma LOL. NOT. I totally disagree on both points. Have a nice day

@@Hilander1298 albee are you alive man? You were a no bullshit kind of guy why did you stop making vidyas

To the best of my knowledge that meter combination of Battery Pack and Signal levels.

+808intheminigrass 73's back to you from the Rockies. When did you leave the grass?

Paul H Ford Put an RF choke on your power cord

Or direct wire to ypur battery

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semi truck.. on the mirrors

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sure am.. gonna check out my ground

+Flavio Santana No. I cannot tune. Take to reputable radio man.

Ok thanks

I agree with the video creator on this one. If I use the entire band I'll set it to be lower in the center however if I use one frequency more often I'll set it to that.

Isaias Balbuena No. set them where you use them.

That's not right. You should turn the mic gain down if it is going pick up any noise.

Jeremy is right. If you have any swing, that fluctuation will change the reading. When you calibrate the swr meter your basically telling the meter what the output power is. (The calibrate function disregards the reflected power) if you have a dead key of 4 watts and a swing to 8 watts with modulation. If you check the swr with background noise it's going to read higher. This is why you recalibrate the meter anytime there is a power change. The exception is If you have a cross needle swr meter. There is no need to calibrate those.

+joe batters I am still kickin Thnx

Thank You for the kind reply. I enjoy watching your're vids. Didn't see anything new for a while I hoped all was well with you and your family. Got you're eye on any new additions to the armory? Maybe you could tell us what you may be thinking about. Or let us know what ya been up to if you want to. Any way it was great to hear from ya. Stay safe my friend. PS I'll tell you my latest addition. Remington 1911 R1 Commander. It's the "plane jane" Government style. Black, short trigger, Spur hammer (that's the only Commander I've ever run across with a spur hammer) Three dot sights, but dovetailed so they could be swapped out.It's SWEET.

+joe batters Nice

Thanks, I'me like'in it.

+pat McCormick Increase your output power if possible. If you keyed power is like 1 or 2 watts it may not be enough. Otherwise, if you cannot calibrate to set, just realize your SWR reading is going to read lower/better than it actually is. It will be somewhat relative.

I did not check the power, I have the same meter you have. I checked it with a small meter but the meter needle was bouncing around and was hard to set but I thought I had it calibrated with the needle going to the set mark. had a good swr on 20 and1. I just wanted to check it with the good meter being the dosi. thanks for getting back with me, Pat.

I think you are getting confused about what standing waves really are. But yes, not many vids specify not to modulate when taking an SWR measurement.

@@arconeagain think there's much confusion around this subject, this video does nothing to help that

1OFGODSOWN to bad you dont know anything obviously.!

You're an idiot.

You are both idiots. You need to learn more about antenna physics. I agree on you with the Dosy though. Coaxial length will change SWR readings because of its loss or attenuation. It will lower the SWR 'reading' at the antenna the longer you go. Also, if your antenna is not 50ohms like at the radio, the 50ohm coax behaves as an impedance transformer. Depending on its length based on phase angle, it will literally change the impedance, that is, what the radio sees.