Art Unwin wrote:
On Sep 28, 11:33 am, John Smith wrote:
JB wrote:

...

after that, there is sufficient loss, that your 100 watt radio is now an 80
watt radio. It may be a neat portable feature, but since you have to get
the antenna down below 3:1 anyway. Might just as well do it right from the
beginning or at least get a big tuner. We didn't worry about these things
with the Pi-net tuning.
...
100 to 80? That ain't even worth sweating, they guy on the other end
will hardly notice ... however, the SWR causing that will cause a
noticeable difference in your received signal from him ...

Regards,
JS

You think so?
Art

Yeah, I do ...

Cut power to 25% and the other guy will see (if his s-meter is accurate)
a drop to half the reading ... at 80% power, little difference, other
than if you were just above noise floor in the first place ... however,
"tweaking" an antenna to perfect match/design criteria has always proved
to we worth the effort ... and especially to my ears--but my s-meter
also ...

Regards,
JS