Hi Doug Ignore those splitting hairs. :)
Yes, and inverted L will represent a load that should work for your radio without any additional tuners (should). I run an inverted L right up the side of an 80 ft pine tree and then I have 4 elevated radials. 2 of those radials parallel a fence that surrounds a Tennis court. Not much I can do about it. The horizontal part goes over to another tree. Many say the fence will detune the antenna, but I don't see it and it closely resembles the numbers when I plugged them into AO (Antenna Optimizer). To prevent the winds from tearing it apart, I have about 30ft of UV protect shock cord on the rest of the horizontal part before the line heads down the other support tree. Since I added the 1/4" shock cord, I have not had a fracture in the antenna. In the past, when it did fracture, I had to take the Quad Copter out and re-drop a new line. :) My antenna is NOT SWR flat across the entire band, which is good. The flatter the SWR you have the more ground losses and less radiated signal. I forgot what my 2:1 SWR bandwidth is, but it is about 1800khz to 1905 or so. It depends if the ground is frozen or not. I've worked the world on this antenna. Short story, I highly recommend you build it and try it. If it works, awesome. If it doesn't try something else. It is just wire and you can re-use it. If you get this shortly after I right this, you can look at my PSK Report Link for FT8 and see what parts of the world I was heard in tonight even with the solar storm. https://pskreporter.info/pskmap.html?preset&callsign=va3mw&band=600000-3000000&timerange=86400 I hope that helps, Mike va3mw On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 9:20 PM K9FD <[email protected]> wrote: > Matching network does not resonate the antenna > > > > Guys > > Will a invereted L a quarter wave length resonate at a given frequency > without a matching network? > > Doug wd8z > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > > > _________________ > > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
