OK, I did it again. Discovered that I had not connected my radial field
to the ground side of my inverted L feedpoint. It was working just
against a single 8-foot ground rod. The difference is startling -
resonance is now at 1825 KHz, and R is down to 40 ohms - still not good,
but certainly more what I'd expect. Curves are way too flat, but ...
That's the end of it for this year - I promise. Just didn't want to
leave it dangling.
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73, Pete N4ZR
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