[TowerTalk] 80 m delta loop

[K4SAV]

Glad you got your antenna working Gerry.

A quick look at your antenna with EZNEC shows a take-off angle of 27 
degrees with a gain of about 0.15 dBi. It has a null overhead. Looking 
in the azimuth directions, at 27 degrees elevation angle, the gain in 
the plane of the antenna is about -7 dB compared to the gain 
perpendicular to the plane of the antenna. It's not a bad DX antenna, 
especially considering the low height.  If you raise the antenna by 3 
meters, you will get about 1 dB more gain and the take-off angle will go 
to 25 degrees.

It should be a decent DX antenna for receiving as well, since there is a 
null overhead and the take-off angle is fairly low (at least much better 
than using a low dipole).

Jerry, K4SAV

Geert Hofman wrote:

>Hi,
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>Some weeks ago I posted a question regarding my 80 m delta loop .
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>I finally decided to go the "easy way" and cut off about 10 meters, to get it to resonance in the 80 m band
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>It's now resonant around 3.650 Mhz and by replacing the "tuning bit of wire" I can get it up or down.
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>Made this morning my first QSO with K1 land, so I am happy.... ( although I only got 449, whilst I read him with real 559, but am running only 100 Watts)
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>Out of curiosity though I modeled the antenna via MMANA but get very strange results...
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>I assume there are more knowledgeable people on this group, who can tell me what really to expect.
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>I made a small drawing below ...
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>                        21 meter         *     *         21 meter
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>                                         *              *
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>                                      *                    *
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>                                  *                            *° FEEDPOINT
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>                               * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *      
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>                                        42 meter
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>Apex height is only 10 meter and baseline wire of 42 meter is only 2 meter from the ground.
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>Feedpoint is very close to the corner , but was measured for around 3.600 MHz, so pretty much in line with current resonance of 3.650 MHz
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>Soil is average to good. 
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>Would like to hear what take off angle with max gain I can expect and some idea of the radiation pattern.
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>Thanks for helping me out and hopefully we meet somewhere on 80 ( CW or BPSK )
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>73's - ON4IG - OQ5A  
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>Gerry
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