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Justin CrooksJustin Crooks
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Raash,
Using just the open (or short) is suboptimal, and the directionality of your coupler limits the accuracy of your VSWR measurement. But it’s my understanding that correcting with open / short / load would require phase information, which we cannot acquire with a scalar system.