Thanks for the replies, guys it was a real education.

I have an indoor dipole cut for 20M that is 4:1 SWR at it's most resonant
part of the band. If I drop one leg to the ground, the swr drops to near
1:1, but the rf is everywhere, including the lcd display of the rig.

I run it with the high swr and a tuner, but the indoor location and hilly
country are not kind. Even so, I do get a weak signal onto the band.

Are the dangers to the coax cable independent of how well you match the
antenna/feedline to the rig?


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