Reg Edwards wrote:

You will find a magloop of the same order of size as a centre-loaded dipole
to have a much superior performance.

The disadvantage of the magloop is the high cost of the vacuum tuning
capacitor.

Reg, since when does the tuning cap have to be a vacuum variable. There
are alternatives such as wide spaced variables, trombones, and other
ingeneous types.

Irv VE6BP
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