Hey Kevin; I have a couple of questions about your intriguing experimentation from the article "Small Terminated Loop Antennas."
1. What differences would the location of the feed point and termination resistor make. i.e. What about them being at the top corners or midway up the "verticals"? 2. The various loop antennas, such as the KAZ, SuperLoop, EWE Flag and so on are all arranged on a vertical plane (for lack of better phrasing). What if you simply laid the loop on the ground? Would that work, with the antenna now being horizontal? Would the null still be at the potentiometer and the signal still be at the feed point end? That way you could use an open field, side yard or whatever and not need supports of any kind. Of course, I dunno if it would work. :) 3. Transformer on the feed point - What signal degradation / mismatches would occur by simply using a TV 300 Ohm / 50 Ohm transformer? IIRC, CT DX'er Bill Nollman (WTFDA list) erected a "down and dirty" flag last Fall and all that he had at that time was a 300/50 TV antenna transformer. Could I get by with that just to get a unidirectional pattern? When I first saw the webpage about David Hamilton's "Slinky Loop," I thought that it would be cool to shove the Slinky inside of the PVC and just lay the frame (with the antenna inside) in the garage when not in use . Now that I have read your article, I think that the big wall inside of my garage would probably support a 7' X 8' loop, just strung from insulated hooks. I won't be able to do any preamplification but it sounds better than the Figure-8 pattern that my old Sanersino or my yet to be built Crate Loop would provide. Thanks again! 73, Dave in Indy _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
