On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:11:03 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote in
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Frank:

Yep. The good old "hair splitters" come crawling out now. Fact is, and he
made them clear!, the company has the antenna and coax, it is a give, he will
switching trucks, no time and doesn't wanna pay shop fees with every run, load,
etc...

The match box is fine, guarantees he will not generate a bunch of shop costs...


It guarantees nothing of the sort, since any improvement is marginal
at best..... more than likely he wouldn't notice the difference in a
blind comparison. What he -will- notice is that his bandwidth is now
more limited (actually -increasing- SWR on the high and low end of the
band) because those matchboxes make pretty good preselectors.


Any sensible person knows it is a no brainer...


Any sensible person would want to know if he's wasting his money on a
gimmick that sounds good in theory (and marketing) but does little or
nothing for his intended application.


He doesn't want to get a damn engineering degree, he wants to use it...


Maybe you missed this part:


.... Just plug it in and talk. If
someone hears you, great. If they don't, there's probably nothing you
can do short of a full and proper install that will get you heard.











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