[Antennas] can I fool my inverted L into being longer?

[Christopher Boone]

Make the entire antenna a helical wound if you can (like a slinky...the 
entire length!)....the electrical length is what counts....not your 
physical length.....In your case, adding the coil in the horiz run 
probably would not help in BW...a LARGE capacity hat on the END of the 
horiz run would be better....like a giant X or similar.

FireBrick wrote:

> Fellow Antennatites.
> 
> I live on a city lot and am acreage challenged.
> I have a inverted L that goes up my tower to a yardarm and slopes down to the garage roof
> on my back lot line.
> 
> It didn't want to load so I coiled more wire around a pvc form at base of the L and it
> tuned.
> But not really well.
> Well enough to make my rig happy although the bandwidth is narrow as I knew it would.
> 
> My question is..would it be better to have that coil up on the almost horizontal section?
> Would that make the rig/tuner think it was a longer antenna?
> 
> of course: Please and thank you.

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