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"What is the likely Z range such a circuit might match?" A coil in parallel with a variable capacitor can be tuned to offset reactance in the antenna. At resonance, a parallel circuit with a high Q has a very high impedance. Edmund A. Laport in "Radio Antenna Engineering" writes on page 310: "Experiment has shown that the correct termination of a long-wire in this manner (low-characteristic impedance wire to maximize antenna current) requires a complex impedance and not solely a resistance. The terminal impedance is of the type R+jX. The inductive reactance can be obtained from the extension wire by making it longer than one-quarter wavelength. This means that the correct resistance, obtained by experiment, must also be located in the correct place along the wire, and that the correct location is more than one-quarter wavelength from the end of the wire. The resistance has an order of magnitude of 400 to 600 ohms in many cases, and 500 ohms is suggested as a starting place for trials when the antenna consists of a single wire. The reactance values required usually should be between j150 and j250 ohms, so that with thin wire, the extension wire whould be somewhere around 105 degrees long." Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI |
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