QST Articles
for The Army Loop

Developed by Kenneth Patterson and Department of the Army
during August 1967 for rapid deployment in Vietnam
"Down to Earth Army Antenna" - Electronics, August 1967
 

• The Army Loop in Ham Communication - Lew McCoy (W1ICP) - QST, March 1968
   
  The interest aroused by a loop antenna described in Electroncs a few months ago sparked a trial by ARRL HQ of a home-built version.  The proof of an antenna is in the communication it produces, so several commonly-used 80-meter antenna types were compared with the loop in direct A-B tests.  Here is a report on the results.
    

• The Army Loop (Response to Lew McCoy) - Kenneth H. Patterson, Department of the Army, U.S. Army Limited War Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland - QST, May 1968
   
  Since I am confident that the ARRL and QST have a keen desire to present the true facts in a straight-forward and impartial manner, I am looking forward to a future loop article reporting on a loop which is truly comparable to the Army version.
    

• The Army Loop (Response) - R. B. Short (W3TOB) - QST, May 1968
  
  Being an aprtment dweller, I am unable to put up an outside antenna, and have found this version of the vertical loop to give excellent results
   

  Kenneth Patterson's tuner Patterson made the tuner for an octagonal loop of 40' (12.2m) perimeter for 2.5MHz and up.  Note that the middle capacitor can have value to 9000pF, which is much more than McCoy uses in his comparison system.