Thank you, Don and Jack, that makes sense.
To explain a bit more, I only operate portable, so my antenna situation is practically never the same and I need to tune anew. For my wire antennas I use the ATU. If I use the magloop, I bypass the ATU and use the TUNE function. That is where I reduced power to .8W. After reading your posts, next time I will tune again with .8W and then increase tuning power to 3 and compare the SWR. If I did that for enough different bands and frequencies, with no discernable difference, I guess I would be safe to keep it at low power from then on, right? 73 de Arno K7RNO ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
