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Originally Posted by G8HQP Dave
No, that won't work - unless you have a good RF ground up in the sky. You need to check the resonance of the whole antenna. How would you measure a resistor if you only had access to one leg?
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I see your point, and that's why I posed the question. Perhaps I need to clarify. What I was thinking of was to test each leg, treating as a longwire, and coupling directly to the end of it, not via feeder.
Does your argument imply that you could not resonate a longwire antenna with a GDO, but only a dipole?
But, in terms of erecting an inverted V where you know the two legs are not in perfect free-space, but are affected by quite different surroundings (trees, buildings), maybe you just
have to proceed by trimming each leg to the same length?
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