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I live in a antenna restricted community!
I have put up a somewhat stealth antenna. 13ga - stranded copper - blk jacket! It is a 540 ft loop = 180 ft virtually lays on the roof and the remainder 360 ft is in my attic. I feed this with 50 ft of RG58u at the center point (6 turns of the feedline - approx 8" dia is used as a RF choke) running down to a manual tuner. The antenna in this configuration is about 1.1:1 to 1.5:1 across all the bands from 75m to 6m. I would like to operate on 160m, but the tuner doesn't cover that band, and when I try to go directly the SWR is extreme and we don't use it! My questions a 1] should I leave the antenna system alone as is? It works - but as a wire system has its limitations due to the clearance off the roof? or 2] should I purchase another antenna tuner that covers 160m - 6m. and open the LQQP and make the antenna a single 540 ft piece of wire and ground the other side? or 3] should I purchase another antenna tuner that covers 160 - 6m and try to make the long side similar to what ever wavelengths are equivalent to a Windom configuration? or 4] should I just open the loop at the furthest end and make a huge dipole out of it? 73's |
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