[Elecraft] OT: Long loop antennas

[Stuart Rohre]

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