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June 18th 05, 06:23 AM

On 17 Jun 2005 13:27:28 -0700, wrote:

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

Just for your info, KM4QQ, Ed, the other party I was talking to last
night and tonight made six contacts before realizing it was off the
back of his Log Periodic. However upon closer examination, he
discovered he was actually on his 80 meter loop. We did some
experimenting and discovered he gains one s-unit by using the beam
pointed at me vs using the 80 meter loop. He will be using the loop
to monitor 6 meters and then rotate the beam as needed.

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73 for now
Buck
N4PGW