Yesterday I pulled down the loop and replaced it with an Off Centre Fed dipole for 80m and above. In the picture to the right it's the front most antenna hanging from my antenna tree so up pretty high.
The wire lengths are: Short side = 39.5 feet, Long side = 94.5 feet suggested by Palomar.
Happily it resonates quite well on the first go with a 4:1 balun as usual. Quite usable without tuner on 80, 40 & 20m.
Before I took down the full wave loop I took this screen shot from SDR++ looking at 40m:
Here's a screen shot of SDR++ with the same gain settings on the OCFD:
Signals, and noise, are greater.
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