On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 07:02:03 -0500, "hasan schiers"
wrote:

Thanks Wes...done...btw the antenna is for 160 meters, not 80m,

Sorry, I was just thinking about the subject of the thread, not
reading what you wrote.

so the loss is even less. It doesn't look to me like it's worth doing anything more than
tuning out the mismatch in the shack.

Exactly. As I said earlier, if it makes it easier on the someone's
(not you, you get it) conscience or ego they can think of the
transmission line as a bunch of distributed L and Cs (with a little R
thrown in) that are part of a tuner.

When they get this "tuner" to show 50 +j0, then they can call the
length of line between the "tuner" and the transmitter, the
"transmission line."

In your case, you have a low-loss line, so the "R" part is low and the
system is efficient.