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Why is a loading coil often used with an HF mobile vertical antenna?
To tune out capacitive reactance
Mobile HF antennas are usually much shorter than a quarter wavelength. This makes them electrically capacitive. Adding a series inductor (loading coil) cancels the capacitance, making the antenna resonant.
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