Roy Lewallen wrote:
Shucks, I have an antenna that's no bigger than a baseball, and it gives
better than a 1.5:1 SWR over more than the whole HF band when I connect
it directly to my transmitter. If I hang it up real high, the SWR gets
better yet.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Well heck, I have one the size of 2 shoe boxes that will handle a KW
from 160m through 70cm with less than 1.35:1. Bird made it. Decades
old and still works perfectly.

tom
K0TAR