Simple Ham Radio Antennas

If you have the space and lots of wire, you may want to try this 80 meter full wave loop antenna designed by Rich Rodgers (WB5YBZ). Rich takes up step-by-step through the design, building, and testing of this "classic" HF loop antenna. As designed by Rich, this antenna is resonant at 3.650 MHz. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqE_W_0Le0k This is post 2387 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas. Thanks for joining us today. Aloha es 73 de Russ (KH6JRM).  

If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqE_W_0Le0k&ab_channel=RichRodgers This is post 2454 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas. If you have sufficient space and a few trees, then this 80 meter full wavelength loop antenna is for you. Rich Rodgers (WB5YBZ) does a wonderful job of describing this antenna he built for his home station. According to Rich, this antenna is resonant at 3.650 MHz. Although you can erect this loop by yourself, you may want some help to speed up the construction and rigging of this large HF antenna.   Your reward will be quiet HF antenna with a bit of gain over a dipole. You can get multiband performance by using a wide-range antenna "tuner", a 4:1 balun, and parallel feed line, such as 450 ohm window line. Full wave HF loop antennas are ideal NVIS (near vertical incident skywave) antennas for local, state, and regional communications. ----- Thanks