Ian Jackson wrote:
I'd never thought of that. I suppose it applies to any situation where
the feeder is electrically short, and the majority of the current is
less than it would be when matched. I presume that the moral is that
formulas only really work when the feeder is electrically long enough
for you to be concerned about what the losses might be.

I suspect the ARRL additional loss due to SWR charts
are based on 1/2WL increments of feedlines.
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