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Old February 20th 08, 03:50 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Sum Ting Wong Sum Ting Wong is offline
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Default Horizontal loop antenna

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:21:54 -0800, (Dave Platt)
wrote:

Anyhow... my impression is that the SGC tuners are best suited for
their original application - feeding a whip or longwire, whilst being
securely bolted and multiply-grounded to a Big Metal Vehicle Chassis.
They also seem to do OK feeding verticals over a big bed of radials.
I just don't think they're all that well suited to feeding balanced
antennas.


Used the SGC feeding a longwire this past Field Day and it kicked butt
over a dipole at 80' fed with a conventional balanced tuner under most
conditions. Surprised the heck out of us.

BTW - Used a pneumatic (tennis ball) antenna launcher to put up those
antennas and it sure made it a lot easier than previous years using
other methods. WELL worth the time to build one of those! Always
wanted to try a loop though.

S.T.W.