"Jayson Davis" wrote in message
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I came across this web site (http://k9erg.tripod.com/theory.htm) and he
says that if properly matched, you could load up a paperclip on 160
meters and it would work. I'm not so certain, since this thing should
be so full of capacitive reactance that the losses in the matching
network should be astronomical.

Any thoughts?

He only said it would radiate all the power fed to it. Unless well shielded
the matching would radiate much more power than the paper clip. Also it
would probably loose about
99 & 44/100 % of the power in the matching network. Also should need a
good ground system :-)