{"id":36,"date":"2015-08-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/15\/skywire-loop-for-160-meters\/"},"modified":"2015-08-15T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T04:00:00","slug":"skywire-loop-for-160-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/15\/skywire-loop-for-160-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"Skywire \/ Loop for 160 meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 15th of August: Last part of work on my Horizontal Loop or Sky-wire antenna.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunally it was raining all afternoon, but around 16:00 hrs I was ready to connect the last two open wire -ends and the 187 meters 2,5mm2 wire loop was closed. It felt like closing a dyke. Average height is 15 meters and 8 trees were used as supports. Feedline is 17,5 meters high and in the North-east angle of the loop. I\u2019ve used some fine\u00a010 cm long Pyrex Glass type isolators.<\/p>\n<p>At this moment I am using a 1:6 Fritzel balun at the end of the ladderline and 22 meter RG214 coax to reach my shack. Next project will be an automatic, symmetrical antenna tuner.<\/p>\n<p>So I was ready for testing the loop in the International lighthouse weekend. First impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>very quiet reception, no static noise or whatever on 20, 40 and 80 meters.<\/li>\n<li>30 meters was the only noisy band.<\/li>\n<li>My IC756 auto tuner could handle all bands except 160, HI. After changing the length of the 22 meters RG214, 160 was OK.<\/li>\n<li>Was able to work all LH stations on cluster.<\/li>\n<li>DX stations on 30-80 meters, no problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More impressions will follow soon, as well as some pictures and details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 15th of August: Last part of work on my Horizontal Loop or Sky-wire antenna. Unfortunally it was raining all afternoon, but around 16:00 hrs I was ready to connect the last two open wire -ends and the 187 meters 2,5mm2 wire loop was closed. It felt like closing a dyke. Average height is 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}