[Lowfer] OKAY; so maybe I need a loop

[Andy - KU4XR]

Well I did get the answer to my question on the sloper antenna, and it evidently will be " as " noisy as the Windom dipole so that would be of no help here. The consensus being; " I most likely need to use a loop "... There is no free lunch, and I can't have something for nothing. I was hoping to avoid the preamps, and bandpass filters and such, but it seems that if I am to do any serious TA work; this is the direction I will have to go. I have some 75 Ohm CATV hardline on hand. For managebility issues, If I were to use a 50 foot ( 15 meter ) piece, formed into a circle; How do I feed, and tune it from inside the shack ??? If I go this route; I will mount it in a fixed position, just high enough to run a weed trimmer under it, say, 3 to 4 feet off the ground. I want to be able to use it to look for signals abroad on 160 meters, 600 meters, 1750 meters, and 2200 meters. This may not be optimum; but I want to do all tuning at the operating position. Can
 this be done with respectable results ?? And would a run of RG-59 coax ( BooKoo's on hand ) into the shack work ?? Probably about 50 feet... If I am going to end up constructing an Interstellar Communications Array out of this; from my recent reading, the K9AY setup looks like a good performer, and not excessively difficult to construct. And it appears that frequency resonance is set by the value of the terminating resistor. 

Again; I thank everyone for your insight; 73 to all :


Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN. USA
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