That's not really quite true. Can you or anyone else tell how many
watts
is radiated from each element of a Yagi? How? Then how do you know
which elements are important an which are not?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

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Neither you, I or anybody else knows. But, as usual, you have put
your finger on the source of the trouble. It's a descriptive language
problem.

To speak in terms which most people understand, when Cecil acquired
his burn the injury was just as likely to come from the antenna as it
was from the feedline.
Actually, it came from the PA via the tuner.

It is not entirely unrelated to the confusion about standing waves
caused by referring to the so-called SWR meter as an SWR meter, when
it doesn't do anything of the sort and, in any case, there is no line
in a position on which SWR can be measured.
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Reg, G4FGQ