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![]() Seeing-I-dawg wrote: I'll match your dipole against my 70m full-wave horizontal loop for equal gain from 70M all they way up to 6M - can you say broadbanded? A dipole is not. Can you rotate your "70M full-wave horizontal loop"? And at 70M, or about 230 feet in "diameter", it is a very different antenna then a 1M much touted miracle loop. I don't think I was attempting to compare 3' with 230'. One supposed advantage of the small, fractional wavelength, loop is the reported, or should I say reputed, highly directional charactoristics. That famous figure "8" pattern. The dipole to which I am reffering is an amplified, very high IP3 and IP2 unit with very good,as in flat gain and very directional, from 100KHz to above 28MHz. I will have to connect it to my scanner and see if I can receive any 6M ham comms, or more likely around here older 49MHz telephones. I suspect it will run out of steam somewhere just above 35MHz, but I haven't checked. It will be later next week before I can do any tests as my "shack" is in pieces and I am reduced to a DX398 coupled to a ~50 random wire out the kitchen window. Terry |
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