I just tried making a Loop on the Ground to see if it would be any lower noise than my 6ft 160m Loop up in the loft.
I followed several people's suggested dimensions . . . so 15 feet each side, feeding it in the middle of the side pointing West with a 450:50 ohm transformer . . . And it's rubbish! A local station (in the right direction) on my 6ft vertical loop in the loft needs a 20dB preamp to bring him to the same level as on my Dipole (and the noise is 6 to 10dB lower). But on the LOG he was 30dB weaker, that's WITH the 20dB preamp! So the S/N would be rubbish. Anyone else tried something similar on 160m? Roger G3YRO _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
