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Just to clarify, Captain Kilowatt is correct about not being able to use a gamma to match a 5/8 wave groundplane and his reason is correct also. The antennas impedance is too high and the gamma can only match antennas that are below the line impedance.

That means in order for Wolf to have added the gamma into the mix and still provide a good VSWR, the matching loop near the base already had to drop the input impedance from several hundred ohms to below 50 ohms so the gamma could bring it back up to 50.

[QUOTE="Shockwave, post: 395251, member: 10882"] Just to clarify, Captain Kilowatt is correct about not being able to use a gamma to match a 5/8 wave groundplane and his reason is correct also. The antennas impedance is too high and the gamma can only match antennas that are below the line impedance. That means in order for Wolf to have added the gamma into the mix and still provide a good VSWR, the matching loop near the base already had to drop the input impedance from several hundred ohms to below 50 ohms so the gamma could bring it back up to 50. [/QUOTE]

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