Great news, Ron. Would love to work you when you get 40 meters squared away 
or maybe even some evening on 80. nothing like being on the air. Have fun. 
73. Lou  WA3MIX
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Ronald E. Milliman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:54 PM
Subject: Good news from K8HSY


>I am overwhelmed with delight to report that I now have both of my new
> antennas operational. My dual band 2 M and 70 CM vertical is working
> perfectly on both bands with a SWR below 1.5 to 1 across the  entire band 
> on
> both bands. Now, for the really big news; my full wave 80 meter loop is 
> also
> working, not perfectly, but it is working. Here is the really strange 
> part:
> the loop will load up on the very low end of 80 meters up to about 3.625
> MHZ, but it will not load up at all on 40 meters which really disappoints 
> me
> because that is the band where I thought I had the best chance of working
> most of you. The SWR is so high on 40 that my TS-590's automatic antenna
> tuner won't tune it; in fact, the rig completely shuts down the power when 
> I
> try to load it on 40. So, the antenna still needs some work. However, it
> works like a champ on 20, 17, 15, and 10 meters. I talked to several
> stations this afternoon, including a station in Mexico, and the really
> biggie is OD5ZZ in Lebanon on 17 meters. So, this is massive progress in 
> the
> right direction. I'm going to shorten the length of the loop to try to 
> bring
> it into resonance on 75 meters, and in the process, hope that it will load
> on 40, but at the same time, not mess it up for the other bands. I just
> cannot understand why we don't see a resonant dip on our Antenna Analyzer
> around 7 MHZ, but we don't.
>
>
>
> So, what was the problem? Actually, there were several problems. First, 
> the
> fellows who helped me put up my antennas failed to mark which coax 
> feedline
> went to which antenna, and then, when they marked them the way they 
> thought
> they went, they marked them wrong; they had the feedline marked for the 
> dual
> bander actually going up to the loop, and the feedline marked for the loop
> going up to the vertical! Then, the fellow who put on my PL259 coax 
> fittings
> for me did such a poor job that 3 of the 4 coax connectors were either
> shorted or one of the two conductors were not making contact. Finally, my
> Son and I determined the other day that the wire forming the loop had a
> break in it somewhere because when we checked across the ends of the loop
> for continuity, were infinite resistance; when we replaced the broken wire
> with new #12 wire, we discovered a splice in the original wire. How it got
> there is a mystery, but that is where the break was; the wire was spliced
> together and wrapped with electrical tape, and I just never knew anything
> about that. Now, if I can just get my loop to resonate on 75 and 40 meters
> without messing up the fantastic performance on the other bands, I'll be 
> in
> tall cotton!! <Smile>
>
>
>
> Ron, K8HSY