{"id":2351,"date":"2016-07-01T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/hardcore-homebrew-swr-measurement\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:08:41","slug":"hardcore-homebrew-swr-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/hardcore-homebrew-swr-measurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardcore Homebrew SWR Measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMGP3310.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMGP3310.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div> <b>No store-bought, appliance, CB-ish Radio Shack SWR meters for the OM who built the SWR sensor on the right. No! He rolled his own center conductor and pick-up loops. Dennis Klipa and I have been exploring the theory behind SWR meters, so when I saw this thing, I immediately went for it. I picked it up at the Manassas Hamfest. I kick myself for not asking the seller for the story behind this project.<\/b> <b>If anyone has any ideas on how\/why\/who built this thing, please let me know. The seller was tailgating close to the stables at Manassas on June 19, 2016.<\/b> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No store-bought, appliance, CB-ish Radio Shack SWR meters for the OM who built the SWR sensor on the right. No! He rolled his own center conductor and pick-up loops. Dennis Klipa and I have been exploring the theory behind SWR meters, so when I saw this thing, I immediately went for it. I picked it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/hardcore-homebrew-swr-measurement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hardcore Homebrew SWR Measurement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamfests-and-flea-markets","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}