Topband: CW Activity

[Rick Kunath]

Roger,

Have you tried a LoG (Loop on Ground) receiving antenna? I have one here 
and it works wonders.

Info at this site: http://www.kk5jy.net/LoG/

I built mine a bit larger but it's non-critical in construction. It 
worked wonders for me. It's also essentially invisible too.

I wanted to try this so I got my hands on a 500 foot roll of twisted 
pair doorbell wire cheaply. I paralleled the wires for the loop and 
wound up using the twisted pair as a feedline to the shack. I have a 9:1 
balun at the shack end. All the wire is on the ground even the feedline. 
It was just a quick lash up, but it worked amazingly well. I refined the 
install after that, and experimented with different sizes too. My loop 
is about double the size mentioned in the article.

I was going to switch to coax buried feed and relocate the balun to the 
antenna end of the feedline, but it's been working so well I never got 
around to it.

It might be worth a try. There is a Facebook group on the antenna too.

Rick K9AO