I've talked to a guy who put up a sky loop like yours, then also installed
another loop, about 5% longer, 40 ft below the first. (He ended up with a
80-meter quad pointed straight up). He talked to europe on 80 quite
regularly - and said it worked well on the other bands too, with a tuner.
"Chuck W." wrote in message
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I've got an 80 meter horizontal loop up around 50 feet in my backyard,
fed with ladder line. It seems to work really well on 20 and 18
meters, no doubt has some decent gain over a dipole in some lobes. I
push about 500 watts into it and work all kinds of DX with very good
reports, even breaking pileups on 20 meters.
Would a 3 element yagi open up a new experience of antenna performance
for me, in terms of forward gain? Sure seems convenient to have an
antenna that doesn't require a tower and a rotator.
Thanks,
Chuck
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