Hello to the group. I just got my 30 meter loop up and working with
the help of my visiting brother Clif (AB5UA). What a great antenna!!
It is up at about 60 feet or so and running in a north-south
direction. There is a 4:1 balun at the feed point so I could feed it
with coax. The wire is insulated #14 with 4 support points and kind
of looks like a square. Now for the good part, it is flat across the
entire 30 meter band and outperforms the Butternut vertical by about
5 S-units! This has been a major improvment for me on 30 meters to
say the least. If you have about 100 feet of wire and some insulators
you have a great antenna ready to be hatched. it also helps to be
blessed with some 100' plus trees like I have. What a hobby, where
else can you build most everything you need.
72 - Phil
Phil Sikes - KJ7NS
ARCI #9196 - QRP-L #528
FISTS #2602 - NW QRP #412
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