Asymmetric elevation of loop antenna with ladder line
Two important updates for my loop antenna with ladder line. One limb of the loop antenna was elevated to about 10 m from ground on fibre pipe which is about 7 m long, kept on the first floor terrace. For this I had to bring down my non-functional fan dipole which was hosted on that mast. In the beginning of the video clip you would have noted another set of elements lower down on the mast. That is one limb of my 80 m dipole antenna. Top most wire seen is a nylon rope used to pull up the limb of the loop antenna.
One end of the loop was left undisturbed while the other end was elevated by about 1 m as there was a free mast vacated by the fan dipole. So the ends of the loop antenna would be about 4 m from the ground. Feed point is at about 5 m. There is no joint at the feed point as the wire antenna loop continues as the ladder line. Ladder line stops outside the shack and is about 10 m long. Now the ladder line is connected to the loop antenna at about right angle, though there is some angulation between the antenna limbs at the feed point. Total wire including ladder line is 60 m, with 40 m for the antenna part. Ladder line was made with black nylon ties and 6 mm black drip irrigation tube pieces of 2 inch each.
Final step into the shack is 183 cm long HLF 200 coaxial cable. That is connected to a homebrew common mode choke. Choke in turn is connected to ATU-100 EXT antenna tuner. I was able to tune 7, 14, 21 and 28 MHz bands using a combination of ATU-100 and the internal antenna tuner of FT-710 to get final 1:1 SWR. The antenna could not be tuned to the WARC bands. It might be possible if I get a balanced manual antenna tuner which I do not have at present.