Loran Antenna Good for Anything Else?

nharney

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Cleaning out the hangar and I found a loran antenna. It looks like a belly antenna for a COM radio. Would it work for anything other than a Loran unit?

Thanks,
Norm
 
LORAN (currently LORAN-C) operates in VLF, 90 to 110kHz which is not the spectrum we use, in aircraft, for anything else these days.
 
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I suppose it would look good on the roof of an old Studebaker.
 
I wonder if it could be loaded for the 160 meter ham band?
 
KennyFlys said:
I wonder if it could be loaded for the 160 meter ham band?
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Wrong band. 160m ham band is 1.8 to 2 MHz. All it would act like is a big unmatched glob of reactive mess. Even if you matched all you would really be doing is making an antenna that had a high radiation resistance. In other words it would not work very well at all.

LORAN-C is the 3,000m band BTW
 
Ahhhh.... I was thinking i was looking at 1 MHz. Yep, that would be a tad out of balance.
 
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