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Adam - I have SWR meter for my ham radio, but it only measures from 1W up. I am nowhere near 1W. It's matching issue. I said that instead of emitter follower I built common emitter amplifier. With 1.2k in collector, output impedance should be 1.2K. So I tried building Pi matching network from 1.2k to 50 ohms using this site as guide
Try changing the collector resistor to a 100 ohm resistor. Whilst it's not ideal, it will have an impedance much closer to that of your feedline.
Oh, and beware that your resistor may have significant series inductance and parallel capacitance due to the helical nature of the resistance trace in some types of resistors.