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If you're only interested in 80m, get a good split stator loop tuning
capacitor and put it opposite the feedpoint in the loop. Make the loop out of the fattest conductor you can find. It'll basically be a big halo antenna for 80m. (maybe you could call it a magnetic loop.. i don't know if people ascribe a particular fraction of a wavelength limit on magnetic loop sizes)..You'll need a motor drive for the cap, because as modeled with 3/4" copper tubing and 3-j1200 ohms opposite the feedpoint, the 2:1 SWR bandwidth is about 15kHz. Radiation resistance is 1.85 ohms or something like that, so you'd need low loss connections for all the wires and a welded capacitor... if you do it all right, though, you'd have a good efficient radiator for local communications. Just a thought. I think this would give you better performance than trying to inductively load the legs. 73, Dan |
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