I just wanted to point out that this antenna is probably not a "world
beater" for six meters. A yagi
or quad would probably work much better. I think the W4RNL said the gain of
the rectangle over the
square loop was only 1db or something small.
The nice thing about it is it's easy to throw one of these together if you
are new to 6 meters or just want another antenna to use besides your beam. I
have put dipoles up for 6 meters and they do have nulls off the end. The nice
thing about the loop is that it is easy to rotate. I have a piece of rope
hanging down to the ground to turn it.
I know I usually don't have a bunch of RG11 laying around the garage. This
antenna
appealed to me because of the 50 ohm feedpoint and I had some RG8X lying
around that I could
use to feed it directly without messing with trying to match it.
73, Jeff
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