[Antennas] Skyloop or Vertical loop ?

Mon, 9 Sep 2002 07:31:07 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Deon Erwin" <[email protected]>
To: "Pastor-KC1DI" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "Demetre
Koumanakos" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 22:13
Subject: Re: [Antennas] Skyloop or Vertical loop ?

> Hi Dave
>
> | It all depends on how big you plan to make the loop.  If you can make it
> at
> | least 80m around then the horizontal (Skyloop) works very well as an all
> | band antenna.  take off angle become lower as you move up in Frequency.
I
> | have a 160M loop up at about 11 Meters which works really well on 30m
and
> | above for dx and reasonably well on 80 & 40M.
>
> The skyloop does work well.
>
> In your case, do you mean a loop for 160m (1.8MHz), or a loop of 160 metre
> in circumference?
>
> Deon ZR1DQ
 .Hi Deon,

They should bethe same .  It is 525 feet around. x .3048=160.2meters  Works
great as an all round antenna.. 73 Dave

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