[Antennas] tune a wire antenna.

[Nicholas Janzen]

I am a fairly new ham, and am really enjoying the hobby so far, I do
however have a question.

I would like to know how to tune a wire antenna to match up with a
specific band/frequency.

>From what i understand this is done using capacitance, so if I had a

x length antenna in cm
y frequency in Hz

what would my capacitance need to be in order to match up with a 50 Ohm
transmitter?

thanks for any help offered,


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