David G. Nagel wrote:
I would like to have a tuned dipole for each band/subband but have
neither the room nor the desire to do so.
Now if you go to the receiver and look at the signal strength meter,
s-meter, you will see that 16db is only about 1 to 1 1/2 s units. In
that a receiver can differentiate a signal down to a very small value
the loss is of only academic interest, except to the purists.

Well, the average ham receiver's S-units are more like 4-5 dB steps.
Even with the "standard" 6 dB per S-unit, 16 dB is about 2.7
S-units. I guess there are a lot of purist hams, me included.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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