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11 Meter Loop Antenna

Homer; is this how you did it?

Looks really easy to do.

How does the quietness of the receive compare to a vertical at the same height?

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Yes, Rob, just like that, except my coax is less squiggly

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You may be right. At the moment it seems to be responding as a horizontal would. Local verticals are way down, and DX is up. I would expect a straight up, ie vertical, radiation pattern to give me stronger local.

This antenna is an 11 meter center/spreader mounted version of what would be a Loop Skywire were it supported from the corners. Horizontal loops have horizontal polarity. I have had quad loops standing up on their edge, in fact, a quad beam fed from a side which did operate vertically just as you suggest.

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It is quieter than the vertical, but at the moment the only vertical I have up is the Sigma 4 at 41.5 feet. This is 30 feet.

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Hey HomerBB, you know I have been getting ready to do a loop myself. Great job on yours! A lot of the ham loop sites I have seen recommend using the loop vertically for dx. I like the quietness of horizontal polarization. One nice thing about the new QTH is that the power lines are all buried, so QRM is not an issue here.

I know it's not a fair comparison, but my extended double zepp for 11 meters made it to WR080 in Hawaii the other day. And that was 12 feet in the air, under a roof.

I enjoy seeing all the stuff you build, so please keep up the great work and posts!

73,
RT307

thing is if you have it laying down like that then the 2 current nodes are a quarter wave out of phaze to the sides but standing upright its like 2 horiz el one above the other giving you a lower toa for horiz in the front and back directions

One might turn this loop vertical and place another loop ~10% larger in diameter and place it "X" distance behind the first loop, and come up with something similar to a PDL-II beam.

The second loop becomes the 'reflector'.

Then, one might add another loop ~10% smaller than the first loop and put it in front of the first loop and place "X" distance in front and have a three element quad beam.

The loop in front of the first loop now becomes the 'director'.

Actually, you would use the same spacing between these elements as you would a three element Yagi - to be correct ("X" distances).

Changing the position of the feedpoint of the first loop to either perpendicular or pointed to th the ground will change its polarization.

This may not be entirely accurate; but the idea is right.

Just playing with the possibilities here.

Maybe - that is what Homer is going to do next . . .

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i love the antenna design very much !!!!!! beautiful job on making it .

can i get one from ya ?

from looking at it , its gonna work awsome .


Homer BB got down got down breakaaaaaaaaa.


i cant wait for the other projects you got up ya sleeve !!!!!! congradulations to ya !!!!