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Antenna was tested today, tuned to a near perfect swr on second try. Tested it on 38 lsb, I put the 18 foot fish pole on a 6 foot wood pole, so height to the top was 24 feet, My buddy was in his truck we did 20 miles before contact went to zero. I am very happy with the performance of this...

Thank you. I am really enjoying antenna modelling. The plots came from the software, the rest I drew up in photofiltre a free paint software, I like to get all the info on one page. I have had some fun with the modelling software made a really strange loop the other day, it looks awful, it was...

Going to roll my own power pack. ordered 2 of these battery boxes off ebay for $2.75 each, will load with my own 18650 batteries which I buy wholesale through my business, Will wire these up with custom outputs and will run them either solo or together depending on how long I wish to operate. I...

Yes very similar output to the birds mouth I drew up, just with the birds mouth in the field, only one leg to tie out, and almost identical performance, birds mouth a little better off the side, just a pinch oval, over omni. And less wire to carry. This will be in my backpack so every gram is...

Thanks you for the input; good to know it is correct, I am building this now in the workshop. I think it is about the lightest, and easiest antenna to deploy in the field. I would prefer one of my loops, but it takes a fair pole to get one in the air. I wanted an antenna that requires no...

Ya these poles are really amazing, and cheap, and so light weight, I am looking forward to some hill top qrp in the spring. Let me know what you use for a battery. I have not found a power source yet. Still scrounging. Going to use a realistic trc-465, ssb radio, on this antenna, already did a...

Will do, thanks, just finished another antenna to add to the array, will tune it when the freezing rain is over, may even get it in the air, warm week on the way, adding a sloper dipole to go beside the 2 full wave loops.

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I have the same problem via internet, internet here is by radio antenna, and it is not far from my cb antennas, and yup right in my daughters headphones, every word, Do not think anything will fix this for me. It is not a hug problem, It goes the other way s well, the radio antenna puts 2 s...

Love arrays, I currently run, a 2 full wave loop, co-phased planar array. Nothing has worked better for me on stock power, 11m.

Ah yes, very good observation, I misinterpreted the vertical component as polarization, he means vertically straight up, cloud burner, thank you for pointing that out. 134 feet sounds quite interesting,a tuner would be required I take it.

Ok, so does not sound like a very good cb antenna for local, but would work for dx. I was wondering how it would perform up high off the ground, say 50 feet to the top fold. High trees here as well. Yes I like the mostly omni pattern, that was what the article was mentioning as circular. It...

I just fired up the antenna software, there is a 40 meter included, the polarization comes up as horizontal, according to the software (mmana-gal) Plot pretty much as the one I posted. For some reason the articles say polarization is vertical. I will have to presume it is horizontally polarized...

Yes what I have read says vertical polarization, I did read thru all the russian stuff I found. My only concern is using this on cb, for line of sight local comms; might not be great, it is meant to be low to the ground this antenna, in the range of 1/4 wave length, not sure what would happen at...

I believe this is what would be called a 5/8th wave L antenna

I will of course get it as high as possible for 11m, this is a ham antenna, believe the original was for 14mhz?? If you google vp2e you will find information. https://vk2ji.com/equipment/antennas/hb9sl-vp2e-wire-directional-antenna/

Here is an interesting antenna, I drew it up with measurements for 11m. Hope to get one in the air soon as I can. it emits at a low angle towards the horizon, about 26 ° (effectively 20 – 40 °), it has vertical signal polarisation, and the antenna gain is about 3 dBd! The antenna does not...