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Sunday, November 6, 2016

Horizontal antenna loop length?

Hi all, am in-progress putting up a horizontal loop antenna. I was hoping to be able to fit a full 80m loop and have run a wire up through the trees on one side of my (small) lot and it’s strung between a couple poles along there other side to make a rectangle.

Unfortunately, I’ve found that i don’t have quite enough space for the full length wire… I can only fit ~240 ft rather than the recommended ~275 ft for insulated wire. How would i best make sure the loop performs well on the most bands?

I could shorten it or maybe make some coils of wire spread out along a slotted segment of PVC by one of the poles to use up the loose wire… Any recommendations?

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