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and made the biggest loop I could build. It goes from the far corners of
the back yard to the left front corner of the house to a support on the right side of the house, a kind of truncated rectangle I guess, 15 feet or so above my desert oasis. I terminated it with an MFJ-913 4:1 BalUn. The antenna works great for SWL (can't steer it unfortunately for ham radio) and MWDX. It is very quiet noise from the neighbors. It also fades less. I can get every powerhouse in the West (except POS KFI) at night, perfectly. No dimmers buzzing. No plasma TVs. No RV Battery chargers. I don't know how long it is, but I really lucked out. It resonates at 3599 KHz, and is below 4:1 everywhere. There is another resonance at around 15 MHz. So it appears to be an 80 meter full wave horizontal loop. It involved the roof, so I had to go slow. It took about 2 hours to erect. |
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