[Elecraft] KAT 500 Loses Match

[Ken WA8JXM]

David,

True but IIRC I was replying to a message where he said the SWR was flat 
through 6m.  Usually, somewhere between 20m and 6m, receive losses do count.

Ken WA8JXM

On 1/14/2024 4:33 PM, David Woolley wrote:
> 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.)
>