[Elecraft] Amazing!

[Gary D Krause]

Hi Mike,

That may be true, however, I don't use dipoles because, I can't.  This is 
where a mag loop has an advantage.  I dipole needs to be up high and have two 
supports unless set up as a inverted v.  I don't have trees or towers in my 
yard.  My girlfriend has trees but, if I were to put up a dipole, I'm sure 
there would be a knock on the front door.  I can work multiple bands with a 
mag loop without a tuner and the neighbors can't see it because, it's below 
the fence line.  I can also rotate it.

When I lived in another location, I had a tower.  I had a rotatable dipole on 
it.  It worked great.  I ended up using mostly inverted vee antennas because, 
the wind didn't bother them as much and they didn't need to be rotated.  Plus, 
I didn't like climbing a tower. ;-)

73,
Gary, N7HTS


> I'd suggest trying a simple dipole.  A 15m dipole is only 22 feet 
>end-to-end,
> and it is very easily set up almost anywhere.  I was living in an apartment 
>in
> the 1980 and 1990 periods of solar activity, so I'd set up such an antenna 
>on
> the balcony, with a 10m element arranged "bow-tie" from the common center
> insulator.
>