I ran an AlexLoop with my KX-2 from the “no antennas” balcony of a fourth-floor apartment for a year while we rebuilt the house and my contest station. Loops will work in places where wire antennas are banned or won’t work at all due to local noise (like an apartment balcony). Members of our club set up antennas at a special event under a concrete overhang at Toronto’s Central Reference Library. All the wire antennas heard was noise while the Alexloop got out just fine. Having said that the need to retune every few kHz is an issue and CW and digital modes are more effective than SSB. I’ve run loops, end-feds, dipoles, verticals and beams and the basics apply. In general wire antennas properly installed work better. Dipoles work better (quieter and less possible interference) than end-feds but end-feds are way easier to get up. If I couldn’t get a wire antenna up (I once put a 15-meter dipole up using popsicle sticks on the peak of roof of a two-storey linked house that was invisible from the ground but set off the smoke detectors if I ran more than 20 watts) I'd consider a mobile antenna like a Tarheel with radials and if that wasn’t possible I’d run a loop. Let’s put it this way, I’m not selling my Alexloop.
73 - Peter - VE3HG
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