David G. Nagel wrote:


I would like to have a tuned dipole for each band/subband but have
neither the room nor the desire to do so.
Now if you go to the receiver and look at the signal strength meter,
s-meter, you will see that 16db is only about 1 to 1 1/2 s units. In
that a receiver can differentiate a signal down to a very small value
the loss is of only academic interest, except to the purists.

Dave WD9BDZ

A hundred bucks says you haven't checked your rig's S-meter response to
two signals accurately measured as 16 dB different.

16 dB is the approximate gain of a 23 element Yagi having a 6.5
wavelength long boom (that's about 450 feet at 14 MHz), compared to a
dipole. Only "Kurt Sterba" and a few others believe this amount of gain
is insignificant.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL