On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:10:10 +0000, Irv Finkleman wrote:

I used one for a few years with great success on all bands 80 thru 10.
Don't let the old 'dummy load' stories throw you.

All I can say is, I was on a CAP HF net a while ago with another station
about 10 miles away from here, and we were both working another station
about 125 miles north. I was running 5 watts to a cut dipole at 17 feet,
and the 10-mile-away station was running 100 watts to a B&W at 25 feet.
The faraway station reported that my signal was stronger than his by a
comfortable margin.

This morning I was on the same net with the same 10-mile-away station,
working another station about 90 miles away. He reported the faraway
station as weak but readable, and I was receiving it loud and clear, about
10 over S9.

I realize there are MANY other variables that could account for this and
the only real proof will be if I set a T2FD up here and compare them side
by side... still, the difference in signal reports is impressive and more
than I expected.