A QUOTATION:

"When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers
you know something about it. But when you cannot measure it, when you cannot
express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory
kind. It may be the beginning of knowledge but you have scarcely in your
thoughts advanced to the state of science."

: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1824-1907.


Think in terms of magnitudes and frequency of occurrence of the effects.
One 1" brass slug in a TV transmitting station, even if the subject of a
learned paper, is surely of less consequence than millions of amateur and
other SWR meters.

Beware of unnecessarily frightening amateurs by inadvertently exaggerating
the importance of SWR due to ordinary variation in connector plugs and
sockets.
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Reg, G4FGQ