Major Goof on my part:
If anyone has built a coax-loop from my instructions at:
http://www.greertech.com/hfloop/mymagloop.html
I must offer my apologies if you have taken into account the velocity
factor of the coax as I indicated.
Thanks to everyone's help here, and with my own clamp-on ferrite choke
test, I satisfied myself that the outer-braid skin is really functioning
as the antenna element. I didn't follow through however by removing
references to calculating in velocity factors.
I did a search for "common mode velocity factor" in this newsgroup and
found that the common-mode, which I am purposely using with the loop
arms, is not subject to major velocity factor issues. Only the inner
differential mode is.
So what you probably have is really a much smaller loop than 0.10
wavelength.
I should have caught this when my wire loop project lengths almost
doubled the coaxial loop lengths, but in the back of my mind I assumed
that it was due to being shortened by the velocity factor of around 0.66.
I can hear my electronics teachers telling me now what the real meaning
of the word "assumed" means all over again!
I guess it's true that the more I learn, the less I know ...
I'll try to clean up that project website mess asap ...
73 de WN6F