Fw: [Elecraft] OT: Long loop antennas

[Stuart Rohre]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre at arlut.utexas.edu>
To: <G3VVT at aol.com>; <mike.harris at horizon.co.fk>; <rondec at easystreet.com>;
<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: Long loop antennas


> Yes Rhombics are fun.  Back in the Army MARS program days for me; I helped
> out at the Fourth US Army Command MARS station at Ft. Sam Houston.  They
> occupied, for awhile, a hill station that had been used by the Signal
Corps
> pre WW2 and during.   They had Rhombics aimed at Canal Zone and South,
> China, Washington DC and Europe, and maybe another.  A barefoot KWM2 was
all
> you needed to work the world, (100 watts or less).  Like shooting fish in
a
> barrel.
>
> Just takes too much real estate.  You can have fun with loops with omni
> directional coverage more nearly than the bi directional coverage of the
> Rhombic without termination.  The Army
> Rhombics were terminated with 600 ohm non inductive resistors as I recall.
> Made them unidirectional.
> -Stuart
> K5KVH
>
>