john@kk9a.com wrote:
> If you use a good feedline, there is little loss from higher SWR at the band
> edges. For example if you use 100 feet of Belden RG-213 at 3.8 Mhz and the
> antenna has a whopping 4:1 SWR ratio, the additional coax loss is less than
> 0.4dB. Of course having an antenna with a low SWR across the band, like the
> 80m cage dipole, will make your radio happy. There are also other methods
> of making the SWR appear lower with a conventional dipole by adding 1/4 wl
> of 75 ohm coax at a specific location in your feedline.
>
> John KK9A
>
More likely, the mismatch screws up the power meter readings used to
make the antenna gain measurements.
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