Hmmh, 200ft from my house would be in my neighbor's neighbor's yard. If
you live in an urban environment, you appreciate the low noise. I have
at least two street lights within 200ft, and probably 4 if I bothered
to research it. Those buggers are really noisy.

When I finally gave up the long wire, it was after using a seriously
long wire (about 100ft) in a very remote area, and compared it to 40ft
on the Wellbrook ALA100. The Wellbrook kicked ass every time. I've
been fiddling with multiple turns with the ALA100, and finally have
some local BCB stations forcing the atennuator to turn on.


Dale Parfitt wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
The loops respond to the magnetic portion of the wave, while most noise
is electrical.

In most loop applications, they are much shorter than a wavelength. At
least for shortwave.
I reread the original post and am convinced the poster is referring to a
horizontal wire loop of large dimanesions- i.e. not fractional wavelength.
I personally have a homebrew 7' shielded loop with wideband preamp on a
short tower some 200' from my home- if the noise source is not in the near
field, these antennas have no noise advantage except in the null directions.
See:
http://www.w8ji.com/magnetic_receiving_loops.htm

Dale W4OP