Simultaneous Transmission Tests, Comparison, and Review of the Chameleon Antenna Tactical Delta Loop

GOUND MOUNTED or MAST MOUNTED configuration; the data tells the story. Let's put Chameleon's Tactical Delta Loop through its paces in this demonstration and review.

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[kroberts]

Great video! Confirms my purchase of the Cha Delta Loop, now I need a mast!

[Chameleon_Antenna]

Fantastic analysis! Elevating a CHA TDL in an urban environment is a MUST due to buildings proximity. But the TDL does DX and NVIS simultaneous on 40M, 60M and 80M! It's also directional. So depending of the orientation - you'll get some gain!

[Mandarin]

really enjoy these videos and the understandable way you break down these concepts! thank you

[younggullkim]

If you have a slightly more space in your home, it is easy to make 2 element delta loop. you can adjust, if you are tuning to someone who is strong and turn the antenna reversed to adjust the short stub for a minimum signal level, you will get 5 -6 db over dipole forward gain and 25 db front to back. Equal to 3 element yogi or a 2 element QUAD..
I am very happy with my delta lop on 17 meter band.

[devinhedge]

I love this series. I can’t wait to get the other components to turn my MPAS 2.0 into the Tactical Delta on the mast.

[dc]

I have both the MPAS 2.0 and TDL and both work very well but I am particularly impressed by the TDL even during poor band conditions. Thanks for the video comparison.

[Philip-KAKOE]

I did this same thing 3 weeks ago with a 20 foot mast during the 11 May 24 weekend of the aurora and G5 storm. I feel the 20 foot mast on my truck saved the activation. I made alot of components to adapt a broken Spiderbeam Pole and a brand X hitch mount and some printed pole clamps. Imminently cheaper than the hitch and metal pole that Chameleon sells. I've been working on that project for a least the past 6 weeks.

[globetrottermike]

hi there, i run a chm tdl for pota (ground), the only thing i can say is money well spent, some contacts to Europa on ssb 57 both ways, now i guess i need a mast 😀😀😀 73 from Canada

[bazzaar]

Pretty much in agreement with what I have found over the years with DLs. 30 to 10 meter performance at modest height (I never had any DL over 30 feet max) was great, and always better than a dipole mounted in the same space. The low bands do show the TDL limitations, 80m in particular, with a good antenna you can expect the band noise to be S9, let alone the signals on there. Your video shows signals way under what I would expect on 80m. We sometimes dont appreciated how strong signals are on the low bands, you know when you have a good antenna when you HAVE to switch in some attenuation! But even a compromise antenna is better than no antenna so the TDL giving something your typical tuner can work with is good.
73s de G0AFV

[thelostiowan]

nice reports -- Always good to see the FACTS on my TDL...

[thebnbaldwin]

Pivot tables and relational databases are the coup de gras for data analysis! You objectively show what we subjectively knew from operating. Thanks!

[daveschilke]

Great video! I use the TDL for portable setup all the time and have great results. 73

[norm_sueb]

Thank you for another video!! Enjoy this heat!!

[Frank_KFMH]

Nice video, Bob. Look at L.E. Cebik’s paper on loops. His models demonstrate the effect of height above ground on how loops like this change the take-off angle and other factors. You’d enjoy reading it…

[JamesHindsWATJ]

Great video Bob. The bands have been pretty bad up here in TN for the last few weeks. I'm hoping things will be different with the CHA TDL.

[AlGordon]

Nice video! I was really hoping that 6m would make an appearance, even if just for the SWR graphs. It’s funny how Chameleon markets this as 6-80m, but all of the data I’ve seen so far is just 10-80m.

I’m hoping for some 6m openings / sporadic E during Field Day, with the intent of using the TDL if so.

[VaHokieYT]

Bob, one of your best analytical videos. I'm pretty much sold on Chameleon antennas. My QTH is very noisy and I need a quiet antenna. It's my understanding that Delta Loops are inherently quiet. Have you found that to be true.?

[michaelstora]

One of these days (before retiring) I am going to have to learn how to do this kind of analysis in Excel (or OpenOffice) instead of JMP/JSL!

[MobiusHorizons]

One really interesting metric you might be able to pull is what the average difference in recieved SNR is for stations that appear in both datasets.

[KSJD]

Pivot tables are your friend, especially if your job is statistics or statistic related. In a past life... Nice way to compare antennas. 73