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Old December 21st 03, 12:49 AM
Wes Stewart
 
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On 20 Dec 2003 23:00:17 GMT, (PDRUNEN) wrote:

|Hi Group,
|
|A friend of mine let me borrow one of those MFJ antenna analizier with the
|reads out of the R and X component.
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|Now if I have a reading of 40 R and 35 X then if I put a cap across the coax
|with an impedance of 35 ohm it should cancel out the inductive reactance and I
|should only see the 40 ohm resistive?

No. The reading you have is an impedance. Impedances are given in
series form. If you shunt this with -j35, you should read 30.6 -j35


If you want to tune out the reactance, put your -j35 capacitor in
series with the load.