[Elecraft] K2 Antenna Tuner Question

[Vic Rosenthal]

"Julian (G4ILO)" wrote:
> 
> At present, the KAT-2 will find a match with my antenna on all bands,
> except 40m. ... My loop is roughly
> a half wave in circumference at 40m so its impedance at that frequency must
> be almost infinite. ... I
> think the solution to this will be to insert a 40m trap into the opposite
> side to open circuit the loop at 7MHz, turning it into a halo.

That should work, but I bet adding or removing about a meter's worth of wire to
the loop would fix it more easily!

73
Vic K2VCO