JB wrote:

...
after that, there is sufficient loss, that your 100 watt radio is now an 80
watt radio. It may be a neat portable feature, but since you have to get
the antenna down below 3:1 anyway. Might just as well do it right from the
beginning or at least get a big tuner. We didn't worry about these things
with the Pi-net tuning.
...

100 to 80? That ain't even worth sweating, they guy on the other end
will hardly notice ... however, the SWR causing that will cause a
noticeable difference in your received signal from him ...

Regards,
JS