> If "Joe Ham" were serious about weak signal reception, he'd mount the
> preamp at the antenna. Otherwise, 3 dB is already a lot of loss to
> tolerate for weak signal work; what's another dB?
Us northeastern Joe Ham types don't like climbing the tower during the
middle of the January contest when it's covered with ice and the T/R relay
gets hung up. Not a concern for y'all in warm and sunny SoCal...
> OK, but I submit that the input match is only of secondary
> concern. Drop
> the feedline loss to 1 dB & the extra loss becomes only 0.5 dB.
Improve the return loss even a few dB at the sacrifice of a few tenths of a
dB of preamp NF and you don't have to upgrade the feedline...
> Only 94 days 'till Dayton...
I hope to be there...
--- Jeff
