Well, I've said it before, I'll say it again.
I am running, now with a loop of wire, about 144 feet, or so. Don't think it
matters, just how much wire, perhaps, the more the better.
Just feed about that length of wire in a continuous loop, ground side of the
coax at one end, the center conductor the other.
Depending on where you introduce the feed, makes mean the kind of
polarization.
If it's at a corner of the loop, I think you get a strong vertical
component. If on one of the lengths, then I think, may be a more of a
horrizontal mode.
Either way, this one, which is about 144 feet, or so, and about 12 feet off
the ground does very well.
I haven't been opperating that much in the last few months, health problems,
but towards the end of last year, I was getting into the States on 18 mets,
as well as 15, and 14.
I have tried junior rvs, and multiple dipoles with nothing like the results
I get with this loop.
I use no ballans, nor any other device on the coax. Just an external tuning
unit.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: smiley antennas


> Speaking of antennas, I'm wondering what is out there for hf.  I'm going
> back to Kansas for a week at the end of this month and am taking a Kenwood
> 130 I just bought at a ham fest.  As my tower and antennas are no more,
> fell down last fall, I'm looking for something quick to put up.  I don't
> have a tuner, so my g5rv is probably out unless I get a small tuner of
> some kind.  I do have a 50 feet tower still standing.  I'm thinking of
> something like a windom or trap dipole.  I'm primarily interested in 40
> and 80.  Anyone know of anything commercially available.  I just don't
> have a lot of time to tinker and don't have tools and stuff back there any
> more.  I have a b and W 1.8-30 I use here in Vegas, and that would
> probably work, but they are around $200 and I really don't want to spend
> that much.
> Thanks.
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr