[Lowfer] Lo-Medfer Loading Coil

W5JGV (Ralph Hartwell) w5jgv at spectrotek.com
Tue Apr 7 13:09:09 EDT 2009


>   I am considering building a very small 500kHz vertical antenna (4
> meters) with a loading coil at the base. Modeling the antenna with
> EZNEC I get value of just under 3.5 millihenries for the loading coil.

That's pretty close, I think.  I use EZNEC a lot, and it generally works
well enough to work the first time.  Usually environmental conditions
have more effect on a short antenna then do calculation errors.

73,

Ralph   W5JGV - WD2XSH/7



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