Of Course you are, all horror stories aside.

Don't confuse the angels dancing on the pinheads around here with practical
world experiences. The best solution is to increase the length of your
dipole to 130 feet and feed it with 100 foot of 450 Ohm ladderline. Connect
a piece of coax with a ferrite bead choke to the 450 Ohm line. Your tuner
will love you and you can use all bands from 80 on up.

The electrical plug on your rig has losses that are about as meaningful real
world..

"Buck" wrote in message
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On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 19:21:27 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Chuck Olson wrote:
The tuner doesn't reduce efficiency - -

There's no such thing as a 100% efficient tuner.


I realize that a tuner is not 100% efficient, but when I hook up my 80
meter dipole and listen on 20 meters (the wire is fed with coax), the
signals are stronger when tuned thru the tuner rather than direct from
the antenna. Not to mention that when I transmit, the radio is
operating on reduced power with the dipole direct. I realize that
there is considerable loss in my coax (I am using garbage and know it)
and that I am taking a loss thru the tuner, but it is a better option
than direct thru the coax alone.




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73 for now
Buck
N4PGW