Working antenna, empty bottles and a wrong ref

As promised, here is the circuit diagram of the antenna.

The number of turns of the coil can be set from 1 to 144 with the two step switches and thus the resonance from 7-30MHz.

The additional ring core (toroid FT 37-43)is used to display the antenna current via LED and is helpful for tuning without an SWR meter.

73 Chris

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