I'm curious what you desire to achieve from such an antenna. It's not
likely to be an improvement over what you already have.
A few years ago, before I was able to put up my current tower and yagis,
I suspended a 40m diamond-shaped loop from a 55 foot tall pole ...
sloped toward Europe from here in Arizona and fed at the bottom apex.
It worked OK, mostly because I live on a steep hillside facing Europe,
but in my opinion it didn't offer anything special other than it was
also possible to use it on other bands with a decent tuner. Keep in
mind that unless you feed it at one side for vertical polarization that
half your current distribution is going to be pretty close to the ground.
In my opinion, you'd be better off stringing an Inverted-V from the top
of your tower if you want something horizontally polarized to complement
your existing verticals.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 12/27/2014 8:02 PM, Rudy Bakalov via TowerTalk wrote:
I am trying to use my 95' tower for as many different antennas as possible. One
of my current thoughts is to suspend/feed a full size 80m loop from the top and
have it slope toward EU. I was wondering if anyone has tried this before and
can offer some first hand experience or can offer some educated guesses (or
even EZNEC analysis) on the expected performance. This would not be the only
80m antenna, it will supplement full size a 4SQ and short verticals RX antennas.
Thanks!
Rudy N2WQ
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