Making the Most of an 80m Loop Antenna
I've spent way too many nights squinting at my waterfall display through a wall of static until I finally threw an 80m loop antenna up in the trees. If you're a fan of the lower bands, you already know that 80 meters can be a total nightmare when it comes to man-made noise. Between the neighbor's cheap LED light bulbs and the general "hash" of a modern neighborhood, a standard dipole often feels like it's just picking up interference rather than actual signals. That's usually the point where most hams start looking into the magic of the full-wave loop. ...