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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Well, I feel like I have a little egg on my face after
waxing so enthusiastically over this tunable loop antenna project. Tommy,
KV5T, who is one of my colleagues at work, found some scans of an article
published in Radio and Communications in August 2001 that describes the design
and construction of exactly this project! What’s more, the author
of the project is none other than Phil Harman!!! Small world. (I imagine Phil
got a chuckle from my proposal.) I only have scans of the article;
perhaps Phil can provide a link to the information. His project was, of
course, beautifully executed and totally professional and worthy of serious investigation
by anyone interested in doing this type of antenna. (Or ANY remotely-tunable
antenna, for that matter.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In any case, the reflector response has been interesting and
encouraging, but probably not sufficient to warrant the bandwidth of a formal
project on the site. However, I’m certainly going to continue to
design and build my own version and would be happy to share any and all of my
work with the group. I’ve just received the prototype PWBs for the
controller, as well as the mechanical parts to start building the drive
hardware, and I’m busy getting up to speed with the code. Several
others have expressed an interest off-line as well, and I’m looking
forward to working with them. I hope we can bring it to fruition soon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Many thanks to everyone for the comments and encouragement.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ken WR5H <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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