Ham, Shortwave radio, antenna 160 meter receive loop.
demo www.youtube.com All of my antennas are fed with 75 ohm catv cable I have 15 antennas some are multibanders, some are home brewed. The loop is 3/4″ catv self supporting 20′ long tunned for 1.900 with 400pf + or – capacitors at center conductor and is center fed. The outer sheild of loop has a 2″ cut out in shield at the 10′ mark and both halfs are joined to the sheild to shield of coax. You must use a preamp. I use an mfj tuneable preamp but have found the preamps in my 756 work well …
March 19th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
How well do you get out with that setup? Talk any good distances?
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:58 am
I would like to hear your personal opinion about hits/misses. What’s in the box? Can you roate it for directivity?
Looks like a fun project.
March 27th, 2007 at 9:04 am
If you read video discription on right it is explained. I plan to put the loop on a rotor as soon as weather breaks. 73
September 20th, 2007 at 5:13 am
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October 25th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
thats some SKANKY homebrew dude!
November 4th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I have found that the antenna I use on 160 is very noisy on receive so am thinking of using a seperate antenna for receive…Thanks for showing me yours! 73 Jer
November 4th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
I designed the polar loop using coax with about 540 feet square. Use the shield. Connected to 450 ohm ladder line. Since the loop is about 100 ohms my balun is home made to match. it is very quite for 160 but during the summer it can have static on the antenna. Much better for winter. We used it in Alaska since the shielded coax ket swr from changing due to ice etc.
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June 6th, 2008 at 1:55 am
I’m also embarking on my first magnetic loop this weekend. I will use copper tubing, however.
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 am
Definitely has a very hammy look to it…