TopBand: verticals

[Peter Chadwick]

Greg asks: 

>Maybe I've missed something, but I don't understand why everyone is 
>so keen to achieve an exact resonance.  What is so difficult about 
>tuning out the reactive part?

History says an antenna must be resonant. I've never seen a reason for
it either, but there are experts around who claim that if an 80m dipole
is more than 10KHz off resonance, it won't work - or at least won't work
DX.

It's also been claimed by the same experts that lowest SWR is always
achieved at resonance for any antenna. I trust generalisations less and
less as I get older

73

Peter G3RZP

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