On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:


If you don't mind it looking strange, it would probably work just as well to
wrap a few turns (experiment with the number and orientation) of wire around
the outside of the radio and then attach the ends of the wire to your
external antenna.

Better yet, open the radio and wind a few turns around the existing rod, then
bring the ends out to a terminal strip or connector.

And that's all that's necessary.

The winding of wire around the radio, the external coupling loop, those
are all constructs to deal with people not wanting to open the radio.

Winding some turns on the actual loopstick is what would be happening if
that radio had an external antenna connection.

And it would be the same if a radio didn't have a loopstick but just a
tuning coil, there'd be a few turns of wire as a primary to couple the
antenna to the tuned circuit.

Michael