I think I found the ultimate indoor antenna

[dinger]

Made another one. Orientated it for 98.9 and it didn't disappoint.

 

[k6sti]

Not exactly wife friendly!

I misread your post. I see now that you oriented the antenna for the 98.9 MHz station. It should yield a much greater signal than the vertical FD. But I guess that's not possible since the meter maxes out at 5! Is 102.9 in the same direction? The loop raised that signal a fair amount.

Decoupling the feedline is more important for the loop than for other antennas because of the short wire at one side of the feedpoint. It's pretty easy for signals picked up on the outside of the coax to compete with it if the 300:75 ohm balun lets them through..

Brian

 

[dinger]

I kept it 300ohm all the way to the receiver. I'll try a balun and coax tomorrow and see how it goes. Have some chokes too I can throw on. Not sure about 102.9's direction. Will look into that too.

 

[dinger]

Made the transition to 75 ohms on the Circular. Moving the antenna to the garage bay wall for longer term next. Didn't get to adding chokes. 102.9 Was about 55 degrees off 98.9 but 98.9 has an edge so maybe that's in play.

 

[k6sti]

If your wall isn't oriented favorably, this directional antenna may do more harm than good. The stations you want to receive should be in the same general direction.

Brian

 

[dinger]

So far so good. The garage receiver has locked on to 98.9 with no dropouts. It's only 10 or 15 degrees from where the signal peaked upstairs. Will be offline for awhile. When I return I'll do a partial disassembly so I can get it into a storage dormer where I can tune the direction in. This has been fun!!!