Friday, October 26, 2007

Success!

The weather finally cleared and I was able to get the loop up. It's pretty close to an equilateral triangle fed 1/4 wave down from the top on one side as specified in ON4UN's Low Band Dxing for vertical polarization. I fed it with a 1/4 wave matching section of RG-6 75 ohm coax and after some simple pruning it tunes to 1.5:1 SWR or less across the entire 20M phone band. I made a few QSO's with it and it seems to play pretty well (at least to stateside). It's oriented E-W (the only direction I had room to put it. I may now try to put up an inverted Vee on another palm tree pointed NE. 4.5 hours to go and I still need to eat sometime too.

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