[Towertalk] Big Wheel Antenna or better

[Chris BONDE]

Is this similat to the FERRIS WHEEL?  This was an octagon loop antenna with 
a special match capacitor, if I remember correctly from y readings.

Chris opr VE7HCB


At 10:02 AM 2002-07-01 +0100, Ffive VHN wrote:
>'ello,
>I'm looking for design info (any frequency) on the BIG
>WHEEL antenna, radiation patterns and stacking info.
>
>I was told about one recently and am now thinking
>about building one for 10M.
>For some reason it does not appear in any of my
>(numerous) antenna books. Why ?
>Does it have another name ?
>Is the design that old/new ?
>
>If it is an old design is there anything better now?
>I'm looking for an omni with gain (Horizontal?/
>vertical?).
>
>I've searched on the net (google) but can only find
>adverts for a manufactured product in Germany.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Robert
>F5VHN@yahoo.com
>
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