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The UHF Loop is a very small, simple, easy to build, and place, bi-directional antenna.
Bi-directional, means it receives best from 2 directions. It receives from the front and back of the loop.
The UHF Loop is quite wide-band. Meaning it can receive many channels fairly well.
But the UHF Loop has to be pointed / or adjusted to get the best result.
(but the advantage is that UHF Loops are so simple and cheap and small ... that you could build and place and point several of them in different places and directions to give you more local or neaby channels coming from different transmitters)
Because the UHF Loop is SO very simple, and because it is bi-directional, and wide band, so cheap and easy to build, and so small (relatively) ... it is great antenna for DIY's - do-it-yourselfers - to build and to do tests experiments with.
I think the UHF Loop has great possibilites to help bring and introduce and promote OTA reception to MANY easily and quickly.
And the UHF Loop may be able to solve many "one off" problems with local or nearby reception.
This Thread is created to:
- introduce UHF loops widely to the masses - to encourage OTA
- build UHF loops
- share UHF loops designs and OTA results
- use UHF loops to solve "one off" problems in OTA receptions systems.
( i.e. to get those "few extra channels", simply, that you can't get well from your existing setup ... because you've got to point in a different direction, for other reasons or problems).
- to experiment with variations on the UHF loop
- try out multiple UHF loop "systems"
(for example to point at multiple transmitters in different directions)
- experiment with "additions" to the simple UHF loop to make improvements or solve pesky reception problems. (ex. with screens, reflectors etc. )
- experiment with the use of UHF loops to receive more than just UHF
(because the UHF loop is, by it's nature, broadband, you may find it can also receive some VHF High ch 7-13 ... or even some VHF Low. I have actually received a strong local analog VHF ch 6 pretty well, testing with one UHF loop.)
- experiment with the dimensions, size, diameter, material etc. of the loop.
- mounting, placement etc.
- screens, reflectors etc.
- anything else you can dream up - using a UHF loop.
Have fun.
I'll be posting more shortly ... on my UHF Loop endeavouors.
"Go for a LOOP"
Bi-directional, means it receives best from 2 directions. It receives from the front and back of the loop.
The UHF Loop is quite wide-band. Meaning it can receive many channels fairly well.
But the UHF Loop has to be pointed / or adjusted to get the best result.
(but the advantage is that UHF Loops are so simple and cheap and small ... that you could build and place and point several of them in different places and directions to give you more local or neaby channels coming from different transmitters)
Because the UHF Loop is SO very simple, and because it is bi-directional, and wide band, so cheap and easy to build, and so small (relatively) ... it is great antenna for DIY's - do-it-yourselfers - to build and to do tests experiments with.
I think the UHF Loop has great possibilites to help bring and introduce and promote OTA reception to MANY easily and quickly.
And the UHF Loop may be able to solve many "one off" problems with local or nearby reception.
This Thread is created to:
- introduce UHF loops widely to the masses - to encourage OTA
- build UHF loops
- share UHF loops designs and OTA results
- use UHF loops to solve "one off" problems in OTA receptions systems.
( i.e. to get those "few extra channels", simply, that you can't get well from your existing setup ... because you've got to point in a different direction, for other reasons or problems).
- to experiment with variations on the UHF loop
- try out multiple UHF loop "systems"
(for example to point at multiple transmitters in different directions)
- experiment with "additions" to the simple UHF loop to make improvements or solve pesky reception problems. (ex. with screens, reflectors etc. )
- experiment with the use of UHF loops to receive more than just UHF
(because the UHF loop is, by it's nature, broadband, you may find it can also receive some VHF High ch 7-13 ... or even some VHF Low. I have actually received a strong local analog VHF ch 6 pretty well, testing with one UHF loop.)
- experiment with the dimensions, size, diameter, material etc. of the loop.
- mounting, placement etc.
- screens, reflectors etc.
- anything else you can dream up - using a UHF loop.
Have fun.
I'll be posting more shortly ... on my UHF Loop endeavouors.
"Go for a LOOP"