As promised and for archive purposes I analyzed the halo in wet conditions. It rained all day so the antenna was definitely very wet. What did it do with the resonance compared to dry weather conditions. Approx the same screendumps were made last month. Find them here.
20m shifted down a little with a little higher SWR on the edges. A very tiny difference.
17m shifted down also a small amount. Almost not noticable.
Nothing happened with the 15m band.
Actually I'm very happy with the results. It shows the open structure of the loops are less affected by rain compared the the use of regular "speakerwire" in my first halo version.
2 comments:
Interesting! And quite encouraging too Bas. Thank you for running this experiment. 73, Tom, M7MCQ.
Hello Tom, if you ever think about a multiband easy to build antenna you might consider this one. It's doing a great job here. I even managed to break some pile-ups. 73, Bas
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