Hi Tam, I'm feeding it at a corner. It's situated horziontally so its
horizontally polarized...The difference on paper and actual operation is about
15 feet for me...After the winter's passed I may go out and start pruning the
wire a bit..I was originally aiming at 3750/The middle of the band so it looks
like if I trim off about 8 ft that should do it...We'll see...Thanks again for
the info..

Steve
kb8viv

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