[TenTec] 80 meter loops

[ac5e at comcast.net]

Chuckle - Rick,  the snake lost, but for the rest of the night every time the mike or headphone cord cast a shadow the phone operator was sure it was the snake's mate, come back to get him. He was still upset at the end of FD, some 12 hours later. 

I had a horizontal loop up from 1994 until 2002, when the 40 acres of woodland behind this house was sold and the bulldozers came in.  280 feet 6 inches of wire at 40 feet, resonant at 3.78, almost perfectly square, with the near wire running due north and south. I had a couple of days to get my wire down before neighborhood ugly-fication set in, so at least I had a little warning. 

(And before someone thinks that's too long for resonance - a thin wire HF loop with 90 degree corners will be resonant at around 1050/f plus or minus for height, instead of the book's 1005/f.) 

I miss it - it was my "ragchewing around the area" antenna. The dipole is less effective, alas, but we must all make way for "progress."  Even if "progress" means a bunch of cookie cutter tract homes. 

73  Pete Allen  AC5E