On Jun 4, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Hank Greeb wrote:
> I'm still not sure whether my preferred, most simple, construction
> project would qualify. That would be one antenna, a full wave 80 metre
> loop, probably a triangle, fed at one corner, and about 40' high..
> Would it qualify if I use it on 80 thru 10 metres?
Yes. It would. The antenna has one element (heck, it has one wire), and you are
foregoing the tribander entirely. TS with no T.
> From reading the
> Cebik Site, it would (which I can do on the first 3 acres of my 9 acre
> lot) there'd be some gain, and some low angle radiation in some
> directions. The pattern, would be quite fragmented, especially on 20
> thru 10 metres. Working with wire is much easier for me than working
> with towers, because of a few strategically located natural antenna
> supports (some folks call them trees).
The rules say nothing about the gain of the antenna. Only the number of
elements.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Web: http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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