Since you are talking about 50 Ohms I assume you are talking about a
transmission line. If that is the case you should definitely match the feedline
to antenna at the antenna feed point. Any attempt to match the feedline with a
tuner in the shack only turns the whole feedline into part of the antenna
system. By doing that you have lost any good work in building the antenna.

Dan

hasan schiers wrote:
I found the error, I had to fix two conditions that I had changed in the
model:

Copper wire (for loss)
Ground characteristics

Now that both antennas have the same conditions, the T has ever so slightly
better gain at 20 degrees than the Inverted L. Not enough to bother with the
increased complexity, and the input Z is now down around 5 ohms for the T
and 8 ohms for the L.

Now, is it worth matching the 8 ohms up to 50 at the feedpoint, or just
using the tuner in the shack to take care of it? (coax feed, LMR-400, about
50')

...hasan, N0AN

"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
...

John Ferrell wrote:

. . .
I am a perpetual antenna student!

And so are we all.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL