The other day a ham friend suggested using a coil ("hairpin") to match
the low impedance of a well-radialed inverted L to 50-ohm coax. This
struck me as a potentially-attractive alternative to a series vacuum
capacitor, but I don't know enough to evaluate it. Thoughts?
--
73, Pete N4ZR
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