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Loopy!

Posted: 09 Jun 2016 06:20 PM PDT
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Last week, Dave KD2FSI brought his AlexLoop to the monthly South Plainfield
Amateur Radio Club operating night. I was impressed by how easily it went
together and how relatively easy it seemed to tune. I would love to have
one myself, but the retail price is a bit out of my budget, so I decided to
homebrew one, instead.


Last night, I ordered 25 feet of LMR400 from DX Engineering - enough to
make two loops with left over to spare. Then I went and purchased a 2 -
240 pF air variable capacitor from RF Parts. I already have some PVC for a
frame - all I really need is a box for the enclosure for the capacitor.
I've read several articles by Steve AA5TB, Julian G4ILO and others. I
think I have the construction concept down and if all goes well, in a few
weeks, maybe I'll be playing around with a W2LJ Loop. The only thing I'm
not sure of, and have to think about, is how I'm going to get this to mount
to my Buddistick tripod.

I think I may have to bug Dave again and take a look at how his mounts to
his tripod.

As I build, I'll take plenty of pictures and will post the saga here.

72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!