I think maybe the reports of my antenna success were a little premature. I dug out my icom mobile/base today and tried out the loop. It works, but not as well as I thought. With my yagi-uda correctly positioned in my apartment, I get an S9 from the repeater. With the loop, I was getting just under S3. While that's not bad for a first attempt at my own design, it's not something I can use on a daily basis. I might take it down to the office and see what it does from there.
Ah well. If I didn't experiment, I wouldn't learn anything.
73
Steve
KDØWSW
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