max.spicer;141267 Wrote: > Interesting. How would it damage the radio? > > Max
SWR: http://www.wenzel.com/documents/swr.html (I'm a ham radio operator, not an RF engineer) Basically, without an antenna, you could be getting a large amount of signal reflected back from the "antenna". A properly designed antenna radiates as much energy as RF as possible. But there is no perfect antenna system, so you always get some reflected signal. If the reflected signal is too much, it could overload the transmitter/receiver and damage it. Wifi is fairly low power. I've never heard of anyone damaging a wifi card with SWR. However, it's also advised that you keep your antenna attached to keep the signal level as high as possible, so the data rate can be maxed out. This allows more devices to talk over the wifi without being constrained. It also provides more bandwidth for re-transmissions to the squeezebox/transporter in case of packet loss over the wifi. Less chance of starving the buffer for data to play. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28078 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
