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Spiral Loop Antenna ? As an experiment I decided 揳fter reading several article on spiral coils? to build a full wave loop on 40 meters in the configuration of a compact spiral loop to see just how well it would work. As a form I went with treated 1扻 2攕 that I cut notches in 綌 spacing 搕his took about 2 hours? Next I measured the wire using the standard formula for a full wave loop 1005/f then proceeded to wind the coil on the form and attached the feed point. Then after checking resonance with the analyzer I found the first issue. I had calculated the frequency for 7.050 Mhz but the analyzer showed the resonant frequency above the band so I started adding wire to bring the frequency until I got the resonant frequency down to around 7.070. What I suspect is this configuration becomes capacitive and raises the frequency so instead of 1005/f the formula was closer to 1090/f .  ?????Performance of the loop. The loop was mounted on a roof tripod at aproxamitly 25 ft up. The first thing about this antenna is it seamed to be noticeably nosier this I attributed to the vertical polarization. Next I found as one would expect that the signals were around two or three S units below my main antenna (150 ft double extended zepp with the apex at 35 ft). The band width of the antenna was very narrow 2:1 B.W. was some were around 20 KHz this may have been better if I had used larger wire what was used was #24 gage wire. As you can see from the far field plots there is some degree of directivity ????   So in conclusion I think this antenna may work out ok as compact portable antenna more experamenting and testing would be needed. Loop log Date Time Call RST sent RST rcevd. Freq. Mode Pwr Name QTH 07-25-08 05:45z KC2GKU 599 579 7 CW 30 James Wharton NJ 08-09-08 01:27z VO2A 599 599 10 CW 30 DXpedition Labrado