I'm glad to see objective data. But as I've said before, it's not
terribly relevant to typical ham radio antenna applications. It would be
very interesting if you would build a simple L matching network with as
low loss as possible (to mimic a ham installation) and repeat the
measurements, readjusting the matching network for each frequency and
connector to minimize the insertion loss. Then you'd be eliminating
mismatch loss from the measurement, and we'd see only the connector (and
matching network) dissipative loss. That's the only loss of concern in
an antenna system presuming you have a way to adjust the match.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Bob Schreibmaier wrote:


For those who want to see Al's original USENET post from 1992:

. . .

P.S. Sorry, I guess I violated the Usenet rule against posting
objective data... :=)