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If you only have one piece of wire terminated at the tuner, you only have one half of an antenna. You have to provide the other half; otherwise the antenna will have no way to radiate. Google "counterpoise". That's a word meaning "the other half of your random wire". And by the way, if you're trying to avoid certain lengths, it's not entirely "random".

[QUOTE="Beetle, post: 540054, member: 1066"] If you only have one piece of wire terminated at the tuner, you only have one half of an antenna. You have to provide the other half; otherwise the antenna will have no way to radiate. Google "counterpoise". That's a word meaning "the other half of your random wire". And by the way, if you're trying to avoid certain lengths, it's not entirely "random". [/QUOTE]

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