"Diverd4777" wrote in message
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Frank, thanks:

- took a 2-3 inch peice of paper wrapped it rond the ferrite,
then wound ~50 turns ( tight spaced) round the paper.
( About ten feet of 26 gague wire.)

Taped it in place, the whole thing slides tightly up & down the
ferrite.

Will go to Goodwill & pick up a radio tomorrow; - found the price goes
up if
you say it fer parts; - maybe if I say I've fallen & found JESUS
Price'll go
down
- In any case..
This being NYC, I'll bring bus spray & a plastic bag; spray the radio
whilst in
the bag. Tye it up, put it in the trunk & drive on home.

Once home, will take the bag ouot to the lawn,
unwrap it,

Kill whatever staggers out

( - New York! New York! It's a wonderful town !!)

Then clean the radio with Paper towels & bring it inside.
Plan on disassembling it in the Apt house Basement.

then bringing the cleaned up parts ( Capacitor, radio's ferrite.)
upstairs..

& THEN I'll try the procedure someone from the ferrite group sent to
Elfa..
& modify as needed..
with a few tricks..
SHOULD work.. !

Dan

It'll work, but it's hard to give specific instructions on how to make
it work the first time. It's something to experiment with. By the way,
the variable capacitors from Ocean State Electronics are pretty good. I
have three of them, and they're date coded from 1999. They may still be
in production. The plastic dielectric caps are harder to tune and work
with. Nearly all of them are designed for AM/FM radios and have a bunch
of unmarked tabs sticking out. More to experiment with. You can also
use the original antenna winding to tune the AM band. There's likely at
least one smaller winding on the ferrite rod you can use to connect to
the antenna terminals of a radio.

Have you made a box loop? I never bothered with ferrite rod antennas,
because I figured a good sized loop would be a better performer. But
I'd be curious about a side to side comparision.

Frank Dresser