[TowerTalk] Resonance is over rated

[Dave - AB7E]

That's a fairly ambiguous statement from K4IPV and I think you are possibly misinterpreting it.  I can put a properly designed L-network at the base of a 50 foot high 80m vertical and it will do exactly what K4IPV recommends.  It has nothing to do with whether the antenna is inherently resonant or not.

73,
Dave   AB7E



------Original Mail------
From: "bill rubin" <brubin2010 at gmail.com>
To: "Dave Harmon" <k6xyz at sbcglobal.net>,
    <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:44:16 -0500
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Resonance is over rated

per the book Antenna Toolkit by Joseph J. Carr, K4IPV

"The only really proper way to reduce the VSWR to 1:1 is to tune the
antenna to resonance and then match the impedance."