[Milsurplus] TCS antenna suggestion

[Robert Flory]

Hi,
When I have trees or other supports available, and I am trying to work
stations past 15 miles away, I use a 5/8 wave length of wire, end fed. 
That gets the output happy by bringing the impedance down from the very
high impedance you get from a half wave.

If no supports available, a vertical works ok.  I usually use my 24-foot
TBX vertical.  For local work with other vertically antennaed stations this
is optimal.

My TCS tunes my 10-foot mobile whip on 75 meters without the external
antenna loading coil, but it won't tune 80.


Rob Flory
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