[Antennas] Matching a Mobile Antenna

[Tom Bates]

Greetings to the list...
 When matching a shortened vertical ( center loaded mobile ), is the antenna
efficiency ( read effective radiated power ) affected much by the location of
the matching network ?  I am wondering if a matching network at the base of the
antenna will have any advantage over an ATU right near the transceiver.  My
understanding of what W2DU had to say is that it doesn't matter--a match is a
match anywhere in the system ???
   Thank you, all.   73,  Tom  AA1NZ