Has anyone used the 9232 mini loop or similar on 6m? It's a resonant loop so it's a pretty narrow bandwidth but I'm thinking it might work well enough for FT8 at 20w. It's advertised as a 10-40m loop but they have suggested lengths for 80 in the manual. Don't have mine handy since I'm at work so I'm just feeling it out before I get some more wire to cut for 6. -- Trevor R.H. Clarke Computer Science House Rochester Institute of Technology retrev@csh.rit.edu http://www.csh.rit.edu/~retrev/

Hi Trevor, I don't think you'll have any trouble with bandwidth on FT8, since the mode is pretty narrowband in the first place. In fact, I'd be surprised if you could not do SSB just fine (bandwidth-wise). What I do suspect may be a problem with that little tuner is shift in resonant frequency when you take your hands off the knobs and/or step away from it a bit. As you go higher and higher in frequency, don't forget that skin effect worsens, so give this factor due consideration when choosing wire size for the 6m loop. Good luck on the air. Dana On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:18 AM Trevor Clarke via mvus-list < mvus-list@lists.febo.com> wrote: > Has anyone used the 9232 mini loop or similar on 6m? It's a resonant loop > so it's a pretty narrow bandwidth but I'm thinking it might work well > enough for FT8 at 20w. It's advertised as a 10-40m loop but they have > suggested lengths for 80 in the manual. Don't have mine handy since I'm at > work so I'm just feeling it out before I get some more wire to cut for 6. > > -- > Trevor R.H. Clarke > Computer Science House > Rochester Institute of Technology > retrev@csh.rit.edu > http://www.csh.rit.edu/~retrev/ > _______________________________________________ > mvus-list mailing list -- mvus-list@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe send an email to mvus-list-leave@lists.febo.com >