[Icom] AH-4 malfunctioning...

[Ekki Plicht]

> Speaking of which, I just got an ah-4 that I'm planning to connect to a
> 80m horizontal loop. I've been told this will work well with one end of
> the loop connected to the antenna connector and the other end of the lo=
op
> connected to the ground connector. Is anyone else running this setup, o=
r
> have an opinion of it?

I have a smaller loop (56m) connected in just that way. It works very nic=
ely=20
for local traffic (Europe) on 80 and 40m, some 30m. Although the tuner=20
matches the loop to any other band, the antenna isn't very effective on=20
higher bands.=20

73,
Ekki, DF4OR