Yes, and it doesn't work. This is the second 80m horizontal loop I have
had, and they just do not like going low.
David Wilburn
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Don wrote:
Have you tried using the antenna on 160 through a tuner just as it is?
Chances are you can match it even on 160M and if you do you will not
have to worry about the ground losses you would have feeding it against
ground (unless using lots of radials).
Don K7FJ
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wilburn"
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] wire antennas
I am very much enjoying reading the discussions on wire antennas. I
have something I have been trying to figure out how to do for some
time, and thought this might be a good place to ask.
I have an 80m loop, up about 60 or 70 feet. Currently it is fed with
300 ohm line. All I could find at the time, as what I had left in 450
ohm line (after I helped my elderly neighbor get his antenna back up,
and gave him some of the ladder line) was not long enough.
Additionally, I went to the local hamfest this weekend and could not
find a single vendor selling ladder line, but I digress. I have
approximately 290 feet of wire in the air in a horizontal, triangular
configuration, fed with (soon to be) ladder line, a balun (1:1) and
then coax to the shack. Is it possible to switch this (seems possible
from what I have read) to a 160m antenna by taking one side to ground
at the balun and feeding the other side? If this is possible, is
there a way to do this remotely?
David Wilburn
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K4DGW
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