Topband: WB6RSE Flag type loop question
Nick Hall-Patch
nhp at ieee.org
Wed Aug 1 15:55:00 EDT 2018
DuckDuckGo brought up this at the top of its search: http://kk5jy.net/LoG/
Presumably that is what you mean?
best wishes,
Nick
VE7DXR
At 19:04 2018-08-01, CUTTER DAVID via Topband wrote:
>Drifting the thread slightly: I read an article recently regarding 2
>loops of 15ft square separated by 15ft which the author called Loop
>On Ground, LOG. He claimed good results on receive over a period of
>a year. It was very low gain but had directional properties and was
>said to be quiet. I can't lay my hands on the site just now, but
>it might be of interest.
>
>David G3UNA
>
> >
> > On 01 August 2018 at 17:15 donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > A horizontally polarized loop -- or any other horizontally polarized
> > 160 meter antenna -- has extremely poor sensitivity when installed
> > less than about 0.1 wavelenght above the ground. Even if you raise
> > a horizontally polarized loop to about 0.1 wavelength (50 feet on 160
> > meters) it will be a poor antenna for DXing because of its
> insensitivity
> > to low angles of arrival.
> >
> > 73
> > Frank
> > W3LPL
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > From: "W0MU Mike Fatchett" <w0mu at w0mu.com>
> > To: topband at contesting.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 3:40:10 PM
> > Subject: Topband: WB6RSE Flag type loop question
> >
> > Has anyone tried a loop like this in the Horizontal plane? I suppose
> > if one had an AZ mount they could try it from horizontal to Vertical.
> >
> > His flag build was in the July 2015 QST.
> >
> > W0MU
> >
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Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada
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