Actually, I've found Icoms to be much more tolerant of SWR issues then
Yaesu. When you consider that most (90% or more?) recent rigs have
built in antenna tuners that can match up to 150 ohms minimum, the idea
of 72 VS: 52 seems trivially unimportant.
Mike S wrote:
At 10:16 AM 11/13/2007, Samuel Strongin wrote...
just use the cheapest piece of junk and try to justify it. The fact
of the matter 1.5 does matter.For example Icom radios fold back when
seeing a swr of 1.5 to one.
Remind me to never buy an Icom. Who would want a radio which can't be
used with a simple dipole having a 72 ohm characteristic impedance?
There's gotta be a huge market out there for a 1.5:1 balun, which no
one is filling.
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