>As for connecting the coax to the antenna, this page has a helpful diagram: > > http://www.hamuniverse.com/slimjim.html > >No, it's not a short circuit due to the magic of RF weirdness. not just at RF either. Telephone engineers will tell you of notches in frequency response, put into telephone lines by wiring left connected to a trunk, but unterminated at the other end. A tutor I had during my apprenticeship courses used to tell how he would really confuse the electrical students with an open wire transmission line down the length of the lab. Light bulb on one end, signal generator feeding around 400MHz into the line at the other, and part way down a stub coming down onto the bench where there was a standard type knife switch. Open switch, bulb goes out, short switch bulb comes on. Used to confuse the electrical students who didn't know anything about higher than 50/60Hz, or maybe 400Hz, how shorting the stub made the light turn on. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist