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From: "Stuart Rohre" <
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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: Long loop antennas
> Yes Rhombics are fun. Back in the Army MARS program days for me; I helped
> out at the Fourth US Army Command MARS station at Ft. Sam Houston. They
> occupied, for awhile, a hill station that had been used by the Signal
Corps
> pre WW2 and during. They had Rhombics aimed at Canal Zone and South,
> China, Washington DC and Europe, and maybe another. A barefoot KWM2 was
all
> you needed to work the world, (100 watts or less). Like shooting fish in
a
> barrel.
>
> Just takes too much real estate. You can have fun with loops with omni
> directional coverage more nearly than the bi directional coverage of the
> Rhombic without termination. The Army
> Rhombics were terminated with 600 ohm non inductive resistors as I recall.
> Made them unidirectional.
> -Stuart
> K5KVH
>
>
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