EASY WAY INTO 6 METER

[W9JI]

I bought a 2 meter and 6 meter loop from Phil

http://www.ku4ab.com/index.html or search for him on ebay he sells the antennas there using his call sign KU4AB for his ebay user name

They are put together quite well. I had TONS of questions for Phil and he answered everyone of them with alot of advice on installation over SEVERAL emails.

I hooked up the 6 meter loop temporarily inside the house on my camera tri-pod just so I can listen. I barely had the antenna hooked up for a minute and I heard the loudest signal I have ever heard on 6 meter, 50.147 USB W5OZI in Texas, I am 70 miles from Chicago. I switched back and forth from the G5RV and the indoor loop while listening to him and I had to struggle to hear him on the G5RV with no signal on the meter DUH!! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif and as I switched to the loop INDOORS he was S-7 http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif I tried to contact him but the ball and chain,,,,,,,errrrrrrrrrrr uhhhh wife yelled "YOUR MESSING UP THE DAMN TV!" ooops thats a project I hope to correct.

I will reply about the 2 meter loop when I hook that up.

[k4uug]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Happy_Hamer @ June 19 2004,01:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I bought a 2 meter and 6 meter loop from Phil

http://www.ku4ab.com/index.html or search for him on ebay he sells the antennas there using his call sign KU4AB for his ebay user name

They are put together quite well. I had TONS of questions for Phil and he answered everyone of them with alot of advice on installation over SEVERAL emails.

I hooked up the 6 meter loop temporarily inside the house on my camera tri-pod just so I can listen. I barely had the antenna hooked up for a minute and I heard the loudest signal I have ever heard on 6 meter, 50.147 USB W5OZI in Texas, I am 70 miles from Chicago. I switched back and forth from the G5RV and the indoor loop while listening to him and I had to struggle to hear him on the G5RV with no signal on the meter DUH!! #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif and as I switched to the loop INDOORS he was S-7 #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif #I tried to contact him but the ball and chain,,,,,,,errrrrrrrrrrr uhhhh wife yelled &quot;YOUR MESSING UP THE DAMN TV!&quot; #ooops thats a project I hope to correct.

I will reply about the 2 meter loop when I hook that up.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Nice antenna did you build that?? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

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Didn't I see something like this in the latest QST? Just skimmed the article, but didn't notice dimensions for 50/144 MHz. Article was for 220/440??