HG>.MSGID: 2:20/228 013afb12   
   HG>In a message dated 04-13-14, Tom Walker said to Roy Witt:   
      
   HG>Howdy Tom and all,   
      
   HG>RW>I used to think that way when I was an experimenting CBer c1965, chasing   
   HG>RW>high SWR with coax lengths in intervals of 'wavelengths' and parts   
   HG>RW>thereof.   
      
   HG>TW>BUT it CAN be done. And while the point may be arguable I suspect   
   HG>TW>that WHEN YOU find the Perfect length it would be less loss than THE   
   HG>TW>BALUN   
      
   HG>You are only fooling yourself, the SWR meter and the transmitter that   
   HG>there is a low SWR. The fact is that the antenna is still not matched   
   HG>to 50 ohms and you cannot tune the antenna with any sort of "antenna   
   HG>tuner". The same bad old SWR still exists along the feeding cable.   
      
   HG>The antenna tuner is a misnomer since what it actually is is an   
   HG>"Impedance matching network". Tuning the antenna has to be done   
   HG>at the antenna itself.   
      
   This discussion is not about "Tuners" but about Balun Matching or 1/2   
   wavelength Coax matching a dipole   
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