"GeorgeF" wrote in message
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Now all your previous complaints sound like whining. Do you want a
tuned antenna, or a gain antenna?

BOTH!?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


There is one SO-239 connector, there is one piece of wire which is 280' in
lenght. On end of the wire is connected to the center pin of the SO-239
connector while the other end of the wire is connected to the braid side
of the SO-239. Hope that clears up the configuration questions.

No I am not choking at the feed point. I was not told about a choke by
other hams who mentioned I should give an 80 meter loop a try. Is a choke
the same as a 1:1 balun? I was told (and found it also illistrated in
print) that I could directly hook 50 ohm coax to the feedpoint. Tell me
what I need to do to choke the feedpoint.

I had seen (believe it was one of the ARRL handbooks) that this antenna
should have no SWR higher than 3:1, mine is 7+:1 so I think either I did
something wrong or am missing something. Don't think I'm whining yet....

George


George,
Since you have an MFJ Antenna Analyzer, is there some frequency, regardless
of the SWR, where the reactive part of the impedance goes to 0? I don't know
about horizontal loops, but vertical loops are not 50 Ohm antennas.

Tam/WB2TT