Cecil Moore wrote in message ...
KC1DI wrote:
Just curious as to what most of you are using as an antenna on
the 30 Meter band?

Actually, my all time favorite antenna is a 40m loop closely coupled
for supergain. It has 20 dBi gain for 200 degrees of the horizontal.
It would make my 100 watt transceiver sound like about 10 kilowatts
and could be scaled for 30m but watch out for complaints that you are
running illegal power. The EZNEC file can be downloaded from my web
page below. (TIC disclaimer)

Have you ever actually tried one of those? I ran it thru expecting to
see a real low Z input, but was fairly high for a "supergain" type
scheme. I had to reduce the segment number to run in the demo...I got
26.3 dbi...??? I'm sort of skeptical that those actually live up to
the specs. Seems everyone would be using one...
20+ dbi is a pretty happy amount of gain for a simple loop like that.
Heck, a rhombic would have to be pretty big to do that well. Or takes
many elements for a yagi...Color me pretty skeptical til I see one in
action....:/ MK