OK, I boxed myself in with a QRP transmitter-Directional Beam Antenna?

[KK4AMI]

Well, if you decide to sell the Argonaut...

I love that little thing. The receiver is excellent. I've made a couple of contacts into New York on 60 meters. My favorite is listening to AM broadcast, KDKA in Pittsburgh. My ol' hometown. That digital filter just opens way up and AM radio sounds so good. It sure puts the R-71A to shame.

[KJ3N]

The full wave loop is omni directional right?

Only at its base frequency, and sometimes not even then, depending on where on the loop you feed it. Anywhere else above the base frequency, all bets are off.

I use a full-sized 40m loop not only on 40m, but also on 20m. On 20m, it produces a 4-leaf clover pattern with about 7dbi gain within those lobes. The same goes for my 80m dipole. On 20m, I get another 4-leaf clover pattern from it with about 9dbi gain within those lobes. Properly oriented, these 2 antennas compliment each other quite well. Each fills in the gaps of the other.

BTW, even a loop has gain. It's just that, depending on height, most of it goes straight up (at the base frequency), which is usually not what you want to work DX. A 40m loop has about 6dbi of gain, but you're not going to work a lot of DX if that gain is going straight up.

[WØTKX]

When I had my last loop up, all five support points were done with nylon pulleys. This let me tweak the feedpoint position around so one of the lobes on 17 made EU stations LOUD. I left it there. Seemed OK "lobe wise" on 15. Hell I even used it on 6. "Random" as I fit it to the space available, 430' of wire. Worked really well on 75-30 meters. 160 was meh. About 45-50' up, a little droopy to allow for high winds whipping the trees around.

I plan to deploy a loop again soon, this one can be larger, with support trees 60-70' high.