So, I'm looking at setting a EWE antenna up - what happens if I simply
make it a full loop? In other words, instead of driving 4' ground rods in
at both ends I run a wire between the bottom of the terminating resistor
and the matching balun.....I'm going to try the shorter version first - 10
feet up and 21 feet across so the full loop will be 62' of wire in that
rectangular shape.
All EWE's, Flags, Pennants, K9AY's, and everything else are just small
terminated loops. They all act like a pair of short verticals that have the
cross-fire feedline phasing integrated into the horizontal conductor
distance, with the vertical drops actually being the desired antennas.
You could run a wire across the bottom, except the antenna load and source
are not symmetrically placed. This means you would have to ground the bottom
wire to prevent the system from being negatively impacted by the
asymmetrically of the load and source position.
73 Tom
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