Not being an a-hole here. But when someone say's an antenna is quieter than another.. That means its not recieving as well.. The better, or "efficient" an antenna, The louder it will be...
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Not being an a-hole here. But when someone say's an antenna is quieter than another.. That means its not recieving as well.. The better, or "efficient" an antenna, The louder it will be...
Oh I still like it... there are odd noise sources from the seriously urban environment I'm in, downtown is 6 miles ENE of me :shock: and it's LOUD!
Experimenting with dropping the SE corner to get some stronger coverage to the SE... Roughly square shaped, oriented with sides parallel to the outline of Colorado. ;)
About 110' per side. Feed point is in the middle of the west side, up about 45 feet, the opposite (eastern) side is up about the same. The feed line is maybe 60 foot long.
The NE corner droops to about 25 feet, and I'm playing with drooping the SE corner to see if I can change the pattern by sloping it as well... Apparently, I'm really loud in Michigan, and I work NY and Maine pretty easily. So it may work.
The NW corner droops about 10 feet, and the SE corner does not, but could. Looking at adding more wire, to try to lower the angle a bit more. It's getting vaguely tent shaped. It's a compromise, but I feel lucky to be able to put up that much wire.
I'd love to have one hanging up higher on pulleys, in the clear so you could tilt the heck out of it. When camping and playing with radios I've messed with tilting antennas and moving the legs around. It works.
Running 500 watts on 75 meters I have worked Hawaii and the east coast at the same time a couple of times. No VK's yet, but last year I did with the smaller 320' loop, and it was lower, about 30 foot average. So it's working. :D
Switching to the Gap Titan is interesting when the band is swirling and twirling. I use the Gap on 40 and up a lot more. But I switch back and forth for the weak ones, and that helps a lot sometimes.
What I really want to do is a reversible Moxon wire beam. That would be... sick. :twisted:
The loop seems quieter with nasty city noises than the big dipole I had up, an obtuse angle inverted V up abut 45 feet at the feed point. But heck yea, it's louder with signals than the dipole was. I hear thunderstorms in 360 degrees! :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by N9FE
So that's a bit more specific about what I mean by quieter. When I hear impulse noise and buzzy stuff... the loop seems quieter, but since I took down the dipole and use it for camping, I can't do a side by side... and the comparison with the Gap is not fair, because it's a vertical dipole. I did make the antenna change in one day.
I will slink away with my small city lot urban subjectivity... :oops:
If your city lot is anything like mine, I'd say you really are lucky. I'm jealous with loop envy. I really do wish I could build a bigger one.Quote:
Originally Posted by KCØTLW
I'm at about 160 feet total length. It encompasses about 1/2 my lot, but I do not have the supports for anything more. I think something like a Gap vertical would pretty much be about all I'd be able to put together to complement the loop. I do not have the space for a big radial farm. I probably do not have much hope on doing much with 80 meters, but that is OK with me right now.
Are you using open feedline &/or a tuner?
I'm using 450 ohm ladder line into a 4:1 Balun, and then about 20' of coax to an ATU (LDG AT-897).
No more than 50 watts (PSK) and I can work most of the EU stations I hear on 30 & 20, so I'm pretty happy, and it's just damn cool to be able to transmit into a big old short circuit :)
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Originally Posted by W9PDS
Duh....
I just read one of your earlier posts about the tuner & feedline.
I have a 20 and 10 meter Full wave loop and the work very well, Very broad banded and much quieter than a beam or dipole.
For some reason, it seems like nearly any piece of metalQuote:
Originally Posted by W9PDS
I stick in the air looks great on 6m on the analyzer.
2m GPs, 75m dipoles, multi band trap verticals
(that aren't designed for 6m), every mobile antenna
I've ever installed, just about everything.
Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke
www.n0eq.com
Yep. My FT100 did the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by n0eq
That's why they call it, "The Magic Band."
It's magic, you know. Never believe it's not so.
:doh: