Topband: More on loop antennas

[Roger Graves]

Jack Belrose, VE2CV, described this in a QST article some years ago. I 
used a shortened version as my first sucessful 160 antenna. I used base 
loading coils at each end since I had only enough room for a half size 160 
mtr "half delta" as Jack called it. It worked very well and gave me my first 
40 or so countries on 160. I had shorting wire to remove the coils, making 
the antenna a full size half delta on 80, which also worked very well on that 
band (except off the ends). Most people I have heard using it erected it as 
a triangle with a single center support. Mine was a squashed rectangle with 
a 55 ft support at one end and a 20 ft support at the other end.
Rod, VE7VV





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