[Elecraft] OT: pwr rating of RG6, etc

[Doug Person]

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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