Bill Ogden wrote:
To return to the ferrite rod antenna: Ignoring the directional null
capability (which might be very useful in some real-world circumstances) is
there any advantage to a small ferrite rod antenna over a short wire antenna?

For the 1980's CA 75m mobile antenna shootouts, a ferrite
rod antenna was used for receiving because the local human
bodies had much less of an effect upon it than, for instance,
upon a hamstick antenna. I always assumed it was because a
human body has more of an effect on the E-field than it does
on the H-field.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp