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Re: [TowerTalk] Feeding a Delta Loop

To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Feeding a Delta Loop
From: "Bill Aycock" <billaycock@centurytel.net>
Reply-to: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:06:05 -0600
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Parry" <bparry@rgv.rr.com>
To: "'Tower and HF antenna construction topics.'" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Feeding a Delta Loop


> Cort,
>
> I am interested in your antenna.  I have a 120 foot tower and an inverted
> vee for 160 at about 100 feet in the center. I wonder if that delta loop
> would give me better performance? Every time I do the math, (160 M X 3 
> feet
> /meter = 480 feet/3 gives me 160 feet on a side and it doesn't seem to 
> fit.
> How did you get it to fit. Do you have some kind of a coil to shorten it 
> up
> in the legs?
>
> Bill W5VX
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Courtney Judd K4WI
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:49 PM
> To: Tower and HF antenna construction topics.
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Feeding a Delta Loop
>
> Stu I tried just to reply to you but everything I tried ended up here....
> but here is my experience... I have a full wave delta loop for 160 hung 
> off
> at the 90 ft level of one of my towers.. sort of a tri-angle with the long
> side at the bottom about 8 ft off the ground. The whole antenna is tilted
> about 20 degrees from vertical and I feed it at the near low corner with a
> 4:1 balun... works like a killer and has great bandwidth. Bandwidth is 
> about
>
> 100 kHz for 2 to 1 points and works great for transmit DX but not the best
> receive antenna in the world. My 2 cents... Cort K4WI
>
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