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I went over the CB antenna section and looked for my aleged posts. I could not find that post there, but I said many similar things in this thread.


What would you have me say anyway? My observations were literally as I said. I offered a few suggestions of why that might be, all of which pointed to some flaw with the antenna.


But the point of this thread was to get ideas on how to increase R without affecting reactance.


A long time ago I asked on another forum about how to build a match for a 2 meter 5/8 wave antenna, and the first proposal came right out of the ARRL antenna book (which Doc actually pulled out of the blue at the start of this thread). The second was to use a simpler base loading coil. I built the first design as best I could and just reported my observation. It was not working as well as a dipole, for whatever reason, so I tried the second proposal and I reported my observation, however crude it may all have been.