"Desmoface" wrote in message
...
Hey kids, it's finally on the air..My electrician ran my coax and the
loop is up and running..She's cut for 75/80 and I originally came up
with about 260 ft of wire but I must have measured wrong cause she
show's the lowest swr of ~1.7 to 1 at around 3650..my calculations
showed it should have been around 3850...

Steve,

I had about the same results with my loop. I ended up whacking off about 5
feet after I put it up, and a year later whacked off another 5. There is
some confusion as to what the length should be. Also, several people on this
newsgroup say that if you use insulated wire, you need to make it shorter. I
am using #14 stranded, insulated copper wire.

I wonder where you are feeding it. I started out with the bottom center, and
later changed it to a bottom corner. This gives me both horizontal and
vertical polarization, and no sag in the wire due to the weight of the coax.
EZNEC showed this to be slightly better. I have the center conductor of the
coax going to the vertical wire.

Tam/WB2TT