> I don't think I ever suggested otherwise. I never said that
> using a half wave cable would improve
> anything. What I did say was that a half wave cable would
> repeat the prevailing condition neither
> making it better or worse and I further said that using any
> variation from a half wave cable could
> either mitigate the mismatch or aggravate it. Having said
> that, I still think that whatever measures
> you want to undertake to improve matching, utilizing a
> half-wave cable is the most coherent way
> to start.
What I was getting at was that the rule-of-thumb you recommended, i.e.
sticking with a half-wave cable, doesn't give you any better or any worse of
a chance in getting the "right" match. The rule could just as well be
"whatever cable is long enough to get from the transmitter to the duplexer"
and it would have just as good of a chance in making the PA happy.
--- Jeff
