I agree with Dave, but a brief would be to put it about a 1/4 wave up at the
operating freq. however, lower versions are cloud burners and good for 100 -
500 miles...higher is generally accepted as being better I would
think...also..if fed with ladder line, will operate on multiple freq. and the
higher freqs would have multiple lobes, some very low angle. I was always a
bit surprised that my HB Superloop 80, fed with ladder line, heard DX sigs
about as well as my beam, of course more noise though...just my 2 cents...read
up .... www.cebik.com is my favorite site.
73, Tim K8WBL
"Everything you want is inside you, All you fear is there as well"
> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:25:19 -0700
> From: xdavid@cis-broadband.com
> To: aa5jg@yahoo.com
> CC: antennaware@contesting.com; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Height for horizontal loops
>
>
> There are so many variables influencing the answer to your question that
> it seems to me your best bet is to download the demo version of EZNEC
> and learn how to use it. Your first surprise will be that you're not
> going to see "real improvement over a dipole" with a loop of comparable
> size.
>
> 73,
> Dave AB7E
>
>
>
> John Geiger wrote:
> > How high does a horizontal loop (the look skywire) need to be for decent
> > performance? A quick google search revealed that people were running them
> > at 25 or 30 feet with good results (in their opinion). I know that high is
> > better, but how high does it need to be to show real improvement over a
> > dipole?
> >
> > 73s John AA5JG
> >
> >
> >
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