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Author Topic: Introducing the SULA: An affordable unidirectional DX-grade loop antenna?  (Read 1981 times)

Offline ThaDood

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Introducing the SULA: An affordable unidirectional DX-grade loop antenna?
« on: August 18, 2022, 1725 UTC »
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Re: Introducing the SULA: An affordable unidirectional DX-grade loop antenna?
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2022, 0030 UTC »
   Thanks ThaDood for the very valuable material for repetition and your own experiments.
It gives you to think, instead of placing a typical magnetic loop in the garden, you can see a better SULA directional antenna. The other two parts of the publication are now available.
 When I am old enough that I no longer climb a tree, this antenna will be my salvation. ;D
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Re: Introducing the SULA: An affordable unidirectional DX-grade loop antenna?
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2022, 0334 UTC »
Sounds promising. I've been pondering several inexpensive readymade and homebrew amplified loops.
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Re: Introducing the SULA: An affordable unidirectional DX-grade loop antenna?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2023, 2342 UTC »
i think LNA instead of balun should work much better. Or aplifier like Chavdar Levkov amp.
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