Thanks John,

I'll have a look. The newest Antenna Handbook I have is a 1950
version::

I've never been terribly impressed with the Leagues Antenna Handbook.
If the antenna section in the newer Radio Amateurs Handbook is any
indication, I probably won't buy one either. But, I'll have a look
see. The Reference section at the college library has a copy, so I'll
swing by and have a look to see if it's worth buying.

Ain't technology wonderful??? It took me less than 60 seconds to
search all the college libraries in New England because all the
offerings are online now! And, as luck would have it, I found one
right down the street (figuratively speaking).

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out.

Regards,

T



On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:41:17 -0500, "John N9JG"
wrote:

Take a look in the latest issue of the ARRL Antenna Book. Chapter 5 is
devoted entirely to loop antennas, and the chapter includes information
about small loops. At the end of the chapter is a nice sized bibliography.

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Getting back to last nights study session. Spent a couple of hours in
my 1987 ARRL Handbook and the remainder on the web looking at real
life loops published there. The web aspect was really disappointingly
devoid of technical jargon, it seems like most of the loop authors
just threw something up and it seemed to work-the end:: Do people
just throw stuff up without understanding what they're doing, or do
they understand and just fail to document the theory??

The Handbook tour was almost as bad. Very little was said about loops
except that which applied to the full wave resonant loop and how it
can serve as a driven element in a 1 lambda 'guad' type radiator.
Other than the theoretical wavelength, the correction factor for wire
diameter, there was not more than 2 paragraphs written with useful
information on short loops such as I am trying to put up.

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