How to tune a 40M Loading Coil for the Poor Man's POTA PERformer

See how to tune and test a 40m loading coil to make the Poor Man's POTA PERformer portable antenna resonant on the 40m band by adding a 40m coil.
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This video shows the steps I go through to custom tune the coil to my antenna. My version of the POTA PERformer uses linked resonant wires for the driven element which can be suspended by a mast or even from a tree limb.

Thanks for watching and 73's.
Jerry
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Version 3 Specifications:
Since the original video there has been even more testing and tuning and some of the driven element lengths have changed in order to reduce the SWR even more. The original still works well but for even lower SWR on all bands, use the lengths in the chart provided here at this link:
Link to Poor Man's POTA PERformer v.3 antenna wire lengths
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s49t...
Enjoy!
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This antenna is based on work by Greg @ KJ6ER and Michael ​⁠ @KB9VBRAntennas .

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Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:39 Setup Poor Man's POTA PERformer for 40m
02:45 Test & Tune the 40m loading coil
16:50 QSO's on 40m from US-0050
25:17 Activate US-10105 Green National Wild & Scenic River
33:41 Outro

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