Old wive's tale. You will get "experts" in here talking about rotation
about the Smith chart for every half-wavelength and that is true. However,
what you are simply doing is a rotation about a "constant VSWR circle" and
all extra coax buys you is whatever loss that extra coax has in that extra
length.

Cut it to fit.

Jim





"Stew Hicks" wrote in message
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For radio experts,
I read somewhere that coax should be cut in increments of 1/2
wavelength, for the center of the bandwidth, 1 1/2 meters as I recall. I
can't find the article now can anyone verify this? How critical is this?
Thanks for any help...............Stew