Topband: Delta Loop

[fkamp@home.com]

I think you are both missing the point of using the delta
loop.  It is used because it offers decent performance
without an extensive ground screen.  If an extensive ground
screen could be had, a simple phased vertical configuration
would be better.  But then we did not go to the phased
vertical configuration and used a delta loop because it did
not require an extensive ground screen.

Frank Kamp
K5DKZ


Bob Eldridge wrote:
> 

> >Seems to me that the vertically polarized delta loop would benefit greatly
> >from a conducting ground screen underneath each of the vertical sections
> 
> That's true as long as the ground screen extends many wavelengths away from
> the antenna, where the reinforcing reflection occurs. If the screen is right
> below the antenna it might reflect some of the radiation straight up.
> The horizontal low wire of the Delta is acting rather like a pair of
> end-to-end radials I think, and when George Brown invented the groundplane
> antenna it had just two ground plane elements, and he added two more only
> because the customer thought they must be necessary.
>