[Yaesu] SHOOTING ANTENNAE

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8/12/03 9:41:37 PM, Clark Savage Turner <csturner@slonet.org> wrote:

>I have also had success casting over an entire (full) tree and pulling a 
>wire around its circumference to make a vertical loop that I feed at the 
>bottom.  I have to use thinner monofilament line in order to have enough 
>on my small spin cast reel :-) .    Works quite well.
>

I see we're all in  sync... I have a full-sized vertically polarized 40 meter loop that I shot through two trees using the same method.  I put it up two years ago with 
heavily insulated wire that won't arc through the insulation.  Loops are great in that there are no super-high impedences along the line that would cause flashing 
through the insulation with even fairly high power levels.  A 40 meter loop also resonates nicely on 20, 15, and 10.  (albeit with a lousy radiation pattern on the 
higher bands)
73,
Dennis