Reminds me of an article in QST in the '50's titled
"One dB Doesn't Matter" or something like that. This
ham had one dB loss due to an old final tube, one dB
loss due to a dirty tank coil, one dB loss in the low-
pass filter, one dB loss in a bad solder joint, one dB
loss in the tuner, one dB loss in the transmission line,
and one dB loss in the antenna. He wondered why he
wasn't getting out very well. :-)
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No he didn't. 7dB, about one S-unit, is not enough to come to anybody's
attention.

It's less than the difference between a G5RV plus coax, specially a 1/2-size
G5RV, and an ordinary dipole fed with open-wire line which most people never
seem to notice.
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Reg, G4FGQ