W0AW wrote
>Wouldn't a shorter than quarter wave result in a feedpoint that exhibits
>capacitive reactance which would require an inductor in series to cancel
>the capacitive reactance?"
Hi Gary,
No, that is one of the neat things about a folded unipole, the sine of
the reactance is reversed from that of a series fed antenna element. The
short folded unipole can be viewed as being a section of transmission
line which is less than a quarter wave, and shorted at the far end. It
exhibits inductive reactance.
73, Roy K6XK
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