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    I don't leave test equipment in line for any reason. Once it's tuned up you are done with testing. I like to keep my test equipment handy and ready to go to the next job. The fewer connections the less trouble and less loss on your receive signal. But, that's just how I like to do it. If you want to leave it in circuit to watch the watts out, it's okay as long as the meter is not causing a problem.
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    Tallman...I agree 100% fewer things connected less attinuation of the signal occurs. I personnaly use my MFJ-259B antenna analyser. Then disconnect and connect to the radio once tuned. Sometimes when I just throw up a random long wire ill use my MFJ 971 Tuner and get on the air with little worries of ensuring I have the proper length of the radiator, I just tune to the lowest reflected signal and hello DX Land...

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    If I get the time I'll take some pictures of the "O"scope wave form with one in the circuit and one with out it. The postive peaks of the signal change a bit. The swr meters essentially just pass the signal straight through, but the SWR meter has to take some of signal to analyze. The first time I saw the difference I thought I had a transistor starting to go bad.
    Last edited by Tallman; 05-05-2013 at 07:30 AM. Reason: changed the wording a bit.
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