Re: Antenna recommendation for 40 and 80M bands
Yup, that's the one.
Built carefully, it is a nice, low-loss ATU. It doesn't cover as extreme a range of impedances as some tuners do, but it covers enough. Extreme impedances are inevitably accessed via high-Q ( = increased loss) transforming circuits.
It also does the balanced transformation for you for free, and avoids the losses in baluns.
There's a commercially made version (Decca branded KW) sitting by my right elbow connected between an ICOM IC7700 and the open wire feeder to the inverted V over the house.
David
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Can't afford the volcanic island yet, but the plans for my monorail and the goons' uniforms are done
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