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               ANTENTOP- 
                01- 2012, # 016 
              
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               Ground Plane for the 40,-30,-20 and 17- meter Bands 
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               The 
                antenna is very simple. It is just vertical radiator in 10- meter 
                length that is matched at the each working band by its own matching 
                unit that is switched on with help of relay. However to the design 
                I came not straight away. There were tried several multiband antennas 
                (for example, antennas from References 
                1 and 2) but for some reason no one of them did not satisfied 
                me. I could not get good SWR at each of desirable working bands 
                of the antennas.  
               
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               Friend 
                of mine, UA7A, ex UA6CW, advised to me to use the described below antenna. 
                He helped to me to calculate matching circuits for the antenna. 
                Figure 1 
                shows schematic of the antenna. Figure 2 shows schematic of the matching units 
                for 40,- 30,- 20 and 17- meter 
                Bands. To eliminate static from the antenna the vertical radiator 
                is grounded through pair resistors in 430- kOhm/2- Wtts.  
               
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