christofire wrote:
Magnetic antennas are sometimes considered beneficial for mobile reception
of medium/lomg-wave signals because they can be made insensitive to electric
fields, ...

A magnetic antenna was used in all of the California
75m mobile antenna shootouts that I attended. I was
told it was to keep the close-by human bodies from
having an effect on the strength of the received signals.

Which leads me to a question: Most of us OFs have
witnessed the effects of human bodies on analog VHF
TV signals being received using rabbit ears. If we
used "magnetic rabbit ears", would the problem go
away? Is it only the electric field that varies when
an EM signal passes through a non-magnetic medium
like a human body - or a tree?
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com