Cecil Moore wrote:
On Jun 3, 11:03 pm, wrote:
But feeding a whip with a tuner usually does not
make for an efficient mobile antenna.

A 11.5 foot (~3.5m) whip driven by an SG-230 autotuner was measured to
be 12 dB down from the top-rated bugcatchers and screwdrivers at one
of the CA 75m mobile shootouts back in the 1980's.


that's a pretty big difference.. (12 dB implies a factor of 16.. that's
like most of the Tx power being dissipated somewhere, and that sounds
like "component melting" levels)

Have you a link to the data and test methodology?