I use a 320 foot long horizontal full one wavelength loop antenna designed for 3.2 MHz. It is fed with approximately 100 feet of 450 ohm ladderline whose exact length is tuned for lowest SWR on its design frequency. Then comes a 9:1 balun from CWS bytemark to a palstar at auto antenna tuner.
I have also used this setup with ldg at200pc antenna tuner which is popular for MARS ALE. I have also used it with the flex 5000 internal atu. A 9:1 balun is important when using ATUs with tuning range inferior to the palstar at-auto which is now discontinued. I use this from 160m to 10m and everywhere inbetween. This is a popular MARS antenna hung low for NVIS use. Thus antenna is also popular for MARS ALE use. It sounds to me that those using multiple dipoles are behind the times. You should read about the superior characteristics of a full wavelength horizontal loop in the ARRL antenna book. Regards, Howard Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
