In this day and age, there is only one meter on or associated with a
transmitter.

It is the misnamed SWR meter.

Consequently and unavoidably, with nothing else left to talk about,
the importance attached to SWR becomes exaggerated.

It is perfectly natural, for CB-ers and professional engineers alike,
to imagine the indicated SWR applies to the one and only transmission
line in the system. That is along the line from the transmitter/tuner
to the antenna.

But the meter does not indicate SWR on any line. It merely indicates
whether or not the load on the transmitter is 50 ohms. Which is nice
to know. But, nevertheless, you have been fooled!

After half a century of being unwittingly misled, it is admittedly
difficult to have to suddenly switch one's ideas about what is thought
to be an important subject.

Carry on arguing!
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Reg.