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Old September 30th 06, 05:50 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Dale Parfitt Dale Parfitt is offline
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Default Wellbrook question


" That was a self defeating test. The idea here is that you will have a
lower noise floor in a locally noisy area with a shielded loop than a
dipole antenna. There is going to be no advantage to using a loop over
a dipole in an electrically quiet area.

A shielded loop is not better at picking up a distant signal than a
dipole but is less sensitive to local noise generators so in an area
with high local noise you would have better signal to noise than a
full size dipole antenna.


Please see:
http://www.w8ji.com/magnetic_receiving_loops.htm

Dale W4OP