[Elecraft] wire antennas

[David Wilburn]

After contemplating it a bit, I would say that it is 75 to 80 feet up. 
I had a similar one at my previous house up about 90 feet.  It worked 
great.  I broke more than one pileup while barefoot.  I'm hoping this 
one works better after I get some 450 ohm ladder line on it.  The both 
have tuned very well on the major bands, and with a bit of a struggle on 
some like 30m.  The automatic antenna tuners in the my rigs has always 
worked pretty well tuning them up.

David Wilburn
dave.wilburn at verizon.net



Stuart Rohre wrote:
> How low did you have your horizontal loop?  We always use a 2 wave or so one 
> for field day, (80m), but mostly use it on 40m and up to 15m.  It is always 
> only 20 feet high, as that is the limit of reach of our portable ladder.
> 
> We get great signal reports, and work all over the country from the Central 
> Southwest.
> 
> I have seen an 80m loop work less well than a dipole when low to a roof 
> containing a metal edging, which we put off to detuning and coupling issues. 
> We feed our loops with parallel lines, either 300 ohm window or 450 ohm 
> window line.
> 
> Stuart
> K5KVH 
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