RW3DKB Loop Balcony Antenna

RW3DKB Loop Balcony Antenna

By: Valery Lifar, RW3DKB

I have not access to the roof on my new QTH, so I decided install antenna on my balcony. It was a loop antenna. Figure 1 shows design of the antenna.

It is a loop antenna with perimeter of 9.72 meter. Antenna made from electrical strand copper wire in plastic insulation.

Diameter of the wire (measured on insulation) is 2.5- mm (10- AWG). The antenna fed through substitute matching line that is a twisted wire (made from the same wire from the antenna) in length of 1.5 meter, two twists on the length of 80- mm. Picture 1 shows the matching line.

Figure 1 Design of the RW3DKB Loop Balcony Antenna

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