I have an 80m horizontal loop which is above and encircles my house. It is fed with 600 ohm ladder line which I bring into the basement shack and use a Palstar BT 1500 tuner. With the tuner I use it on 6m-80m. The loop is only broken where it enters the house to an ICE ground which is attached to a ground rod and to the service ground. I also have no RF problems even after adding the KPA-500 to the mix. K3, KPA-500, Palstar and computer all grounded and tied to service ground.
The house is made of 9" thick exterior walls and 14" thick roof. Both made of a steel exterior frame and steel interior frame which is fully filled with styrofoam. Basically panels made with steel studs inside and out. I have no idea if that helps with RFI or not but it does help with utility bills! 73, Joe, W8JH K3 1713, KPA 132 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/160m-loop-experiment-a-big-failure-tp6895962p6917835.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
