[Elecraft] [K3] KAT3 and 160 with 40m long doublet

[Wes Stewart]

Don't you mean "to the transmission line"?

A quarter-wavelength line between the antenna and tuner makes that -j into a +j.

Wes  N7WS

--- On Sun, 1/2/11, Tony Estep <esteptony at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> The antenna can be way shorter than 1/2 wave
> and still tune up
> fine. No loading scheme is needed. A short antenna just
> presents a
> capacitive reactance (a -j value) to the tuner,.............