Cecil Moore wrote:
Is the coil an exact replacement? Of course not.

Just got an email that prompted me to expand this statement.
The worst thing about replacing a piece of wire antenna with
a coil is of course, the wire radiates well and the coil
radiates hardly at all. But that's a compromise we are forced
to live with for 75m mobile antennas.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp