Topband: 160 RX antenna

[Björn Mohr]

Rick N6RK wrote;

>> For the Stew Perry, I constructed a 4 foot diameter "shielded" loop out
of coax, as seen in various handbooks. <<

>> However, what surprised me was that it was a darn good receiving antenna
in its own right.  At my QTH, any vertical of any height is virtually
useless as a 160 meter receive antenna.  The loop is supposedly vertically
polarized.  Yet it received as well or better than my full sized dipole and
much better than the transmit vertical.  On CE/K7CA, the copy was excellent,
although not quite as good as a beverage.  I could also copy other DX such
as JA with it.  Many coast to coast QSO's were made with it. <<

I have been using a similar loop for about two years and logged more than
100 DXCC's with it. Recently I added a FO0AAA loop plus a pennant to my RX
antennas. I was surprised how well this small RX loop performed compared to
those bigger antennas. Yes, the pennant and the FO0AAA loop are slightly
more quiet, have a different pattern and are broadband but the size in
relation to performance makes the the small coax loop a very nice RX antenna
fot topband.

I have been using to classic version of the antenna, but K9DF has an
interesting version of it that I might be testing soon;

http://ok1rr.com/view.php?cisloclanku=2004122907


73 es HNY de Björn /SM0MDG