[Elecraft] KAT 500 Loses Match

[David Woolley]

The receive part of the penalty, from a lossy antenna, only applies if 
the dominant noise source is after the point of attenuation.  That's not 
generally true at HF.

(I wonder if, at microwave frequencies, it is possible to use 
circulators and isolators to put passive losses in on only the transmit 
path.)

-- 
David Woolley

On 14/01/2024 05:16, Ken WA8JXM wrote:
> Unless its something like a log periodic, I think anything with those 
> frequency/SWR specs can only do it with high resistive losses.  It 
> reminds me of the HF dipole B&W makes for the military: it is designed 
> to appear to have a low SWR by having 3 db of  resistive losses.  The 
> military considered that an acceptable design.   Remember, antenna 
> losses affect TX and  RX, so that's 6 db system loss.