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While a transmitter looking into an impedence mismatch can be a problem,
transforming the impedence the transmitter sees satisfies the transmitter
and has no effect on antenna SWR. Everybody's happy, nothing changes as
far
as SWR.

Now you're changing things by adding a tuner... the net effect is that the
transmitter is now seeing a 1:1 swr. All we talked about was your claiming
there was a preoccupation with SWR... if there was no problem with a high
swr, then there's no need for the tuner you just inserted into your
justification.

There is and always will be a need to present the transmitter with the
lowest possible SWR, regardless of if it is accomplished with a well-tuned
antenna or if that is not possible, inserting an antenna tuner between the
transmitter and antenna. So you can't get away from a "preoccupation" with
SWR no matter what you like to think.

Jerry
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