[PaQSO] Antenna recommendations

[BlairBates@aol.com]

If I could have only ONE antenna for PAQP it would be a horizontal 80 meter 
full-wave loop, about 35~45 feet off the ground.  I'd feed it with ladder 
line through a good tuner.  My experience is that this antenna will play VERY 
well on 80, 40, and 20!   On 80/75 and 40 it's a NVIS radiator; on 20 and 
higher it becomes a lower angle radiator.  Of course, you need 4 good, 
properly spaced trees and a semi-open site.  (Or two weeks to string the wire 
through the trees of a heavily wooded site <grin>)

 If I had time I'd lay out 10 or 12 radials on the ground so I could load the 
whole thing as an inverted-L on 160.  

k3yd