[Lowfer] Rotating TXes

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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:01:53 -0500 "Bill Ashlock" <ashlockw@hotmail.com>
writes:
> Bob,
> 
> >WOW a rotatable tx antenna; so howz it work
> 
> Works great!
> 
> >and if the vertical antenna radiates in a 360 Deg pattern ,equally
> >then ( I have to say it ) can we assume that the squeezed portion 
> of >the 
> >loop signal appears as ( shudder ) gain in the favored direction.
> >Or just a little less loss in the favored direction if it is a 
> figure >8 
> >pattern then there should be more signal in the peak of the 8s.
> 
> If you say so........

Dont Quote me   HAR

> 
> This experiment is supposed to show that the ground loss falls off 
> to near 0 
> when the loop is elevated to heights close to the loop diameter. The 
> Rac for 
> the loop, without ground loss, calculates to .05 ohm and should be 
> comparable, signal wise, to a 50'x50' loop with #12 wire. I wasn't 
> even 
> thinking about the rotatable aspect!

Are you going to post the dimentions  ?? 3/4 inch pipe must be a bear to
fuss with 
in the dark,, in the cold and whatever. Just before I became laid up I
was fiddling
with a simple matching netwark to use my 12 Ft loop as a Tx ant.

what is it in us that forces us into the dark of winter to do stuff like
this 

Bob