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Old July 25th 07, 10:49 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Owen Duffy Owen Duffy is offline
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Default matching masts as vertical antennas.

"Wayne" wrote in
news:cbKpi.3766$7w.1151@trnddc05:

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You might try the matching system used on the old "Gotham Vertical".
This uses a tapped coil from the base of the mast to ground. The top
of the coil is tapped down until resonance is found. Coax braid is
to ground, and the coax center conductor is tapped up from the bottom
of the coil for best match.


Whilst this system might work for an antenna with a capacitive feedpoint,
will it work for an inductive feedpoint such as this ~3/8 lambda attena?

Owen