[amsat-bb] Measuring VSWR at 2.4GHz

[Stefan Wagener]

Look for:

"N1201SA"

on Ebay ~$150

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 4:39 PM Zach Metzinger <zmetzing at pobox.com> wrote:

> On 09/04/18 16:00, David G0MRF via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> > Does anyone know a cost effective way of measuring VSWR or reflected
> power at 2.4GHz ?
> >
> > I'm building a 70cm to S band upconverter with 25 Watts output.
> > Before I connect it to my dish feed, it would be nice to know that the
> match is reasonably close to 50 ohms.
> > It would be nice for the PA transistor to last more than 1 QSO
>
> David,
>
> Try building the surface-mount version at the bottom of this page:
>
> https://ludens.cl/Electron/swr/swr.html
>
> They don't need (or tolerate) much power, but they are cheap to build!
>
> --- Zach
> N0ZGO
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