[TowerTalk] Force12

[Tom Osborne]

Tom Rauch wrote:
> 

> SWR does not tell you at all what the efficiency of a system >is, because it does not indicate power dissipation nor does it >tell you anything about the source. 

Amen to that!!  Ever feel a badly designed antenna tuner when the
swr goes to zero and the temp of the tuner goes to about 150
degrees?  Lotsa loss there.
Tom W7WHY

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