[Elecraft] Attic Antenna

[g4ilo at qsl.net]

I'm surprised with all this talk of dipoles and doublets that no-one has 
mentioned loops. I'm not an antenna expert, but it has always seemed to me 
that the efficiency of an antenna is somewhat related to the amount of wire 
in the radiating element.

You can get more wire in a loop round the periphery of an attic than you 
will get in a dipole strung in the apex of it. It may not give a 50 ohm 
match, but nor will the dipole except at one frequency. If you feed it with 
ladder line and a balun, or a very short length of co-ax, feeder losses 
will be kept to a minimum. That's what I use.

73 de Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392
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