Topband: Elementary Inverted L questions

[HP]

Lets get a bit more elementary - are you sure that wire has DC continuity 
end to end when its up and tensioned ??? 

I once bought a roll of wire from HD that had a gap of about an inch in it 
Maybe your wire is not all connected -that would move the ant up in freq 
from where you expect. 

If you still had a good old rugged tube amp you could match it it and feed 
a KW or so into and see if a gap catches on fire-or end melts and falls off . 
(Lets the smoke out of the wire ) 

Hank K7HP 


----- On Mar 25, 2021, at 1:56 PM, N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote: 


Jim, ignorant question - at X=0, isn't the resistive component also the 
impedance? 

73, Pete N4ZR 
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