Topband: Fw: Full wave Loop on 160

[Harold Smith]

Tom:
I think you hit the nail on the head. I know quite a few locals that have 
low horizontal antennas on 160 and 80 meters.
Yes they work a lot of DX, but when the rare one comes on, they have to wait 
and wait.
I wouldn't trade my shunt fed tower for anything except 4 of the same 
phased.

73 de Price WØRI


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji at contesting.com>
To: <Topband at Contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Full wave Loop on 160


>> I'm afraid you may be misled by some  "over stated" gloomy
> pronouncements
>> concerning the lack of effectiveness of  big horizontal
>
> I can work similar DX with a dipole at the same height, and
> dozens of others have done the same with a large variety of
> similar cloud warmer antennas starting with W2EQS way back