I was curious and just started fooling around today. I hooked my UV-5R up to my base station antenna to see if I could hit a repeater I use occasionally at around 30 miles out...which it did. I was kinda shocked. So, I hooked up my SWR meter, and damn! I was getting a 1.02 and 4.8-ish watts hitting that repeater.
So, I hooked my base station radio back up and tested it. It's a Btech UV-25x2. It got 1.4 SWR at about 18 watts.
Why would a 5 watt radio have a better SWR then a 25 watt radio when using the same coax and antenna?
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I was curious and just started fooling around today. I hooked my UV-5R up to my base station antenna to see if I could hit a repeater I use occasionally at around 30 miles out...which it did. I was kinda shocked. So, I hooked up my SWR meter, and damn! I was getting a 1.02 and 4.8-ish watts hitting that repeater.
So, I hooked my base station radio back up and tested it. It's a Btech UV-25x2. It got 1.4 SWR at about 18 watts.
Why would a 5 watt radio have a better SWR then a 25 watt radio when using the same coax and antenna?
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