When you buy a cheap ham radio ... The SWR was high all across the bands the antennas targeted. It won’t come as a surprise to find that making an antenna work at 2 meters and 70 centimeters ...

A Ham radio operator will tell you all about the standing wave ratio (SWR) of his antenna, and he may even have a meter in the shack to measure it. He’ll know that a 1.1 to 1 SWR is a good ...