Standing Wave Ratio Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) is the most commonly used parameter in radio frequency technology, which is used to measure whether the matching between components is good. When amateur radio enthusiasts make contact, of course the first thing they think of is to measure whether the standing wave ratio of the antenna system is close to 1:1. If it is close to 1:1, of course it is good. I often hear such questions: But what happens if it cannot reach 1? How small is the standing wave ratio for the antenna to be qualified? Why are there no standing wave meters on old military radios such as size 81? This article does not intend to repeat the theoretical description of voltage standing wave ratio in many radio technology books, but just wants to discuss a few practical issues from the level of perceptual understanding. VSWR and nominal impedance The condition for matching the transmitter and the antenna is that the resistance components of the impedances of the two are the same and the inductive reactance components cancel each other out. If the impedance of the transmitter is different, the impedance of the antenna is also required to be different. In the era of electron tubes, on the one hand, the output impedance of the electron tube itself was high, and on the other hand, low-impedance coaxial cables had not yet been promoted. Parallel feeders with characteristic impedances of several hundred ohms were popular, so the output impedance of the transmitter was mostly several hundred ohms. The nominal impedance of the antenna of modern commercial solid-state radio communication devices is mostly 50 ohms, so commercial VSWR meters are also designed and scaled according to 50 ohms. If you have an old radio with an output impedance of 600 ohms, you don\'t have to bother using a 50-ohm VSWR meter to repair your antenna, because that would only do more harm than good. Just try to adjust your antenna to the maximum current. When VSWR is not 1, it is meaningless to compare the VSWR value. Antenna VSWR = 1 means that the antenna system and the transmitter meet the matching conditions, and the energy of the transmitter can be most effectively transmitted to the antenna. There is only one matching situation. If VSWR is not equal to 1, for example, it is equal to 4, then there are many possibilities: the antenna is inductively detuned, the antenna is capacitively detuned, the antenna resonates but the feeding point is wrong, etc. On the impedance circle diagram, each VSWR value is a circle with infinite points. In other words, when the VSWR value is the same, there are many possibilities for the state of the antenna system, so it is not very strict to simply compare two antennas with only VSWR values. Because VSWR values other than 1 are not worth determining with such precision (unless there is a special need), most VSWR meters do not have...
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