Topband: Loop-family antenna notes

[Larry Molitor]

At 08:34 PM 12/3/00 -0500, Tom Rauch wrote:

>Yes indeed. Small loops  (and even Flags and the family of
>terminated loops) respond quite well to high angle signals
>horizontally polarized broadside to the loop and vertically polarized
>off the ends. Of couse the polarization is "tilted" at points between
>those two extremes.

I'd like to point out that while Flags, Pennants, Deltas, etc, do have a 
high angle response, it is an order of magnitude or so less than the small 
loop. It was quite easy to observe this over the last two contest weekends 
with a small loop, a rotatable flag, and at least one of the other 
configurations all in operation. Fast switching between three or four RX 
antennas many hundreds of times makes it obvious which is the real winner.

73,

Larry - W7IUV


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