In a message dated 04-13-14, Tom Walker said to Roy Witt:   
      
   Howdy Tom and all,   
      
   RW>I used to think that way when I was an experimenting CBer c1965, chasing a   
   RW>high SWR with coax lengths in intervals of 'wavelengths' and parts   
   RW>thereof.   
      
   TW>BUT it CAN be done. And while the point may be arguable I suspect   
   TW>that WHEN YOU find the Perfect length it would be less loss than THE   
   TW>BALUN   
      
   You are only fooling yourself, the SWR meter and the transmitter that   
   there is a low SWR. The fact is that the antenna is still not matched   
   to 50 ohms and you cannot tune the antenna with any sort of "antenna   
   tuner". The same bad old SWR still exists along the feeding cable.   
      
   The antenna tuner is a misnomer since what it actually is is an   
   "Impedance matching network". Tuning the antenna has to be done   
   at the antenna itself.   
      
   73 de Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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