Dave Riley write about loop antennas: There are two 'cons' that I can think of. One is the weight of the low-loss wire required. This would cause a problem in my own case as local restrictions lead m
Glad you asked, Andy... Hope this one makes it past the spam filter... Back in the commercial AM transmitter biz days I buried miles of extra copper in to poor conductivity soil and gained little or
Howdy Mike, Well, I am grateful for the 2 nulls as there is little or no activity in those directions thus making for some gain in the favored directions ( NE-SW ) and lowering noise from the sides..
Dear Andy, Dave, LF Group, My experience is that improvements to the ground system soon reach a point of diminishing returns where the ground connection losses are small compared to other losses - I
Jim, Yes I can confirm this :- increasing the height of the top loading, even if only in the middle, does lead to substantial improvements. One benefit of doing this is that the effective height and