[TowerTalk] Isotron Antennas

[Pete Smith]

It is a joke - much less effective than one of the MFJ compact loop 
antennas, or the original compact loop if you can find one.
  I remember that KA9FGOX won Sweepstakes low power one year from Puerto 
Rico using one of the originals.

73, Pete N4ZR
73, PeteAt 11:10 AM 2/28/2009, WA6RKN wrote:
>If you gentle readers would bear with me while I take an excursion into some
>antenna type questions....
>
>Specifically, the Isotron Antenna.
>
>Being a skeptic, this antenna sounds too good to be true..
>
>So..I ask you folk..Opinions?  Thoughts....good or bad.....
>
>(Or any suggestions of a small footprint antenna for use from an apartment
>landing.  This one caught my attention as one could BS the apartment
>management and say it was a fancy sat dish.  They wouldn't know the
>difference.  LOL)
>
>Limited area for an HF antenna and severe restrictions necessitates the
>search and questions.
>
>Dipoles and other wire antennas are out.  Verticals are pretty much out as
>well.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Joe Wolfe
>WA6RKN
>
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