I had a 550' XL loop up ~50' that was clearly the best HF antenna I ever had. Tried various baluns and feed lines. The Open wire with a real balanced tuner is pure gold. Now I have more room with very tall trees and a Drone. Need me some XXL action!
Incredible Bill, now I know what they mean when they say put up a “long wire” antenna. Making the drone footage to give the likes of me the chance to see it was a brilliant idea so thanks for posting the video. 73’s M7ESD
William outstanding you're so damn cool what a contact you just made it's awesome man I love Lupe antennas but you have a exclusive beautiful loop antenna and you did it the right way you'll have no problem getting out knowing whatsoever thanks for sharing
Most impressive antenna, Bill. Quite an effort to get it installed but it was indeed worth it and reaping in the dividends now. Excellent video by the way. 73, Mike, K2CD
thank you for posting this William. We had a brief QSO back in June when you first testing your loop - I remember your signal and audio was fantastic :-) And now we get to see it that huge loop :-) 73 G1VWC
I was wondering what output power you were running here....I loved my 160m loop when I had it up...great antenna even with only 100W out. We have moved from ZS to CT and I have space for an 80m loop, which I will erect in the next little while after procuring some spiderbeam masts. Ideally I would like to erect a 320m loop sometime, just to see how it performs. I love me a loop skywire! This has given me a good idea already. Thanks for the video, have fun and 73 de CT7/ZR1XZ
That's got to be longer than 32M from the house to the 1st telegraph pole. The greenhouse seems around 6M long. You have enough space there to try a rhomboid.
Always interested to learn about large loops. I found my loop of over 600 feet installed only about 10 feet high could receive trans-Pacific BCB stations on medium wave on the west coast of Canada. A great video would be for you to simply slowly scan across several different bands to show off the very low noise floor and the signals you can receive. VA1CQ
I have had a horizontal square loop for 25 years now but small back yard has 260 feet long. Would love to QSO with you sometime. Located in Tucson, Arizona USA. With your antenna if it is on you can hear it I bet. 73 WB7ORB
WOW I want one of those made many loops over the years a hard antenna to beat almost every time but that thing is a monster! I had a loop once about 450 feet long up about 60 feet over a grass field was a square shape fed with 450 ohm ladder line right into the house into the tuner. Worked great on all bands and had a very quiet receive great job on that antenna.
Thanks for posting this video William. Is route you chose, so that the wire didn't go over any buildings and be adversely affected by their ground plane? I ask because I'm thinking of similar project which ideally would go over a barn and stables with a steel roof and am wondering if this will have an adverse effect.
no i have the loop well above buildings and no problems works all good ps i would advise putting a 4:1 currant balun on your loop which i now have done works brill de mi0tlg william
Hi Bill, I just heard you on 7.165 and thought I'd check out this massive loop that you're using. I'm sat on my driveway in Marlborough Wiltshire using my FT-817 in the car with a Moonraker whip. Unfortunately the original FT-817 doesn't transmit above 7.1 MHz as it's stuck with the old band UK limits, or I would've call back to you. Perhaps I'll hear you one day when I can come back to you. Regards, Ian, G4XVW.
Not necessarily. At my contest QTH there's +100kW of solar panels installed and the QRM they generate is absolutely zero. Could hardly believe it myself. But it's a professional installation using SMA inverters, very well grounded and completely silent.
Awesome setup. I have contacted balun designs for their recommendation for a balun for a similar setup I'd like to do. I see in the video you recommend a 2.5:1 current balun. I advised them of this, but they wanted to know feedpoint impedance on each band, could you kindly offer some direction? Gage of wire you used? Thanks and 73, VE9ASN
Thanks William voice Mr. Ahmed 40 m in a loop. Because the size of my property I might be able go to 8m or 75. It far from being the same height . Tnxs for sharing de KQ4CD Paul
Bill it was great to talk to you today (12-27-2022) on 17M Loop to Loop. Have you changed the 2.5:1 balun with a 4:1? I have added your video to my LOOP antenna page on QRZ. 73 Art W1SWL
