This is strictly a guess, but I tried the Hustler on 75 meters when it first came out back in the 50s. I quickly
developed the impression that the principal impedance matching device was the lossy coil. VSWR was good, signal reports
were lousy. Needless to say, I went back to a bugcatcher and a base matching coil.

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"pete365" wrote in message ...
I didn't think that the wip would go that far down. I guess what I'm
asking , is it normal for the coil to get hot when I go key down for a
couple of minutes. Has anyone had one of these apart? what kind of coil
is it? Pete N1AGV

'Doc wrote:


Pete,
By any chance was the whip/upper portion of the antenna extended
down into the coil? As in a 'core' in the coil which shouldn't be
there, that sort of thing?
'Doc