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Your antenna's Z in the 40M band is astronomical:
Impedance = 12740 + J 8376 ohms in the 80M band Impedance = 98.29 + J 1069 ohms Skip the lore about baluns (which you couldn't possibly hope to find/build/buy), what you need is a tuner and second smaller loop (think half the size) in parallel with the big one (to pull down that astronomical mismatch). 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC With such a high VSWR the loss on 100 ft of 450 ohm ladder line is only about 1.1 dB on 7 MHz. Typical tuner loss about 0.5 dB. Frank |
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