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*edit* Just looked up the formula for a 5/8 wave antenna, and it's 585/156.8, so the length is 3.73 feet, or roughly 3 feet 9 inches.
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i think you would have to shorten from both ends.
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I was wondering about that. I had a 5/8 wave antenna for 2m on my truck years ago but I didn't know if it had some sort of matching network in it or not. I wasn't sure what the impedance at 5/8 wave was.
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Most manufactured antennas use a shunted load of some sort to compensate for impedance mismatches.
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