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The Skyloop

Being a 160m fullwave horizontal loop at 65 feet, used on all bands from 160 to 6 meters.

Those Trees, though!

Nearing retirement in 2018 I decided to dust off my ham ticket and get back on the air after being off the air for over 25 years. During that time I had moved my family to Ohio because of a job opportunity. Our house is in the middle of about about 4 acres of very tall hardwood trees. So the first challenge was to figure out how to launch ropes over 70 foot high branches in the woods. But that is the subject of another post.

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