You will find a magloop of the same order of size as a centre-loaded dipole
to have a much superior performance.

The disadvantage of the magloop is the high cost of the vacuum tuning
capacitor.

Program MIDLOAD will assist with design of a short centre-loaded horizontal
dipole. But it will only be a single-band job.

Program MAGLOOP4 will assist with design of a 1.5 or 2-metre square or
circular magloop for 80 meters which will also work even better on 40
meters. Use 1" diameter copper pipe.

Download programs in a few seconds from website below and run immediately.
The performances of the two types of antenna can be compared.
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