Based on our current conversation, It appears that my next antenna
will be a loop.

Comments are welcome,

Ok...Live a little...Build a yagi for 6m...Will smoke the
dipoles and loops, etc...I built a 3 el NBS yagi all from
hard drawn copper tubing. I think it cost about $20 or
so for the tubing...I built it all one piece using a torch to
weld the elements to the copper boom. The elements
are 1/2 inch. The boom , 1 inch I think...
Actually on 6m, anything is probably ok...But my 706
does not like big wire antennas. Brings in too much
HF signals, and trashes the receiver..Using the yagi,
it's pretty clean. You'd probably see the same thing,
being you are using the same radio...Mine is a mk2g,
but 6m is probably the same appx circuit...Myself,
I don't see a loop really being much better than a
dipole..There won't be any mistake switching to a
yagi... MK