Cecil Moore wrote:

Jim Kelley wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:
This is one of tricks that Mother Nature plays on us hams. XL goes
the "wrong" way with frequency but (pardon my Russian) "tough ****sky",
that's the only way it goes.

Could a loading coil be used more like a trap?

Traps are a different subject. Self-resonant coils should only
be used at a current minimum point. IMO, they are much too lossy
to be used at a current maximum point.

But a trap needn't be any more self-resonant and lossy that a loading
coil. A loading coil could function as both if it were in the proper
position for the upper band(s). No?

73, Jim AC6XG