Re: [TenTec] Re: ~ 1/4 wave 160 doublet

["Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer" <geraldj@isunet.net>]

Rob Atkinson, K5UJ wrote:
> <SNIP>

>  "Rule no. one:  If it works, don't #### with it."
> That was how my real technician education began.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Rob Atkinson
> K5UJ
> <SNIP>
That applies here. The antenna won't work a bit better with the added
feedline, just the tuner will be easier to tune. And that's why those
magic lengths are no longer described in modern antenna manuals.
Sometimes it may take adding a shunt capacitor or shunt inductor to the
feed line terminals to put the reactance into a range the tuner can
handle. Not a big deal.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

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