Re: Topband: Hairpin Matching Coil Questions - Shunt?

Thankyou Charlie. I got those Q numbers from http://www.m0ukd.com/Calculators/air_core_inductor_calculator/ Maybe a decimal point was left out. Thanks Tom -- Jim K9TF _ Topband Reflector

Topband: 'Hairpin' matching

Just to add a comment on this thread: I do not use an inductor to match my inverted 'L', just a capacitor from coax centre/bottom of wire to the radial point. Further I do not use big wide space 'toast-rack' Cs, but tiny ceramic ones rated at 6.3KV which will handle very decent amounts of