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"DeWayne" wrote in message ...
"RHF" wrote in message om... KW, I have bought two Kiwa MW Air Core Loop Antennas. A Used one for $248 and the other 'Like New in the Box' with all the Documents and Gear for $425. Is it really that much better than a Select-A-Tenna? I've pulled in a lot of stations very clearly with my SAT. DeWayne I don't know what a Select-A-Tenna is, but a loop is a loop is a loop. There is no magical quality that any one loop would have over another besides voltage. The larger the loop, the higher the voltage out. But the directional qualities are the same. Several hundred bucks for a MW loop is ridiculous. I'd have to be on some kind of drugs to pay that much. My loops are all free. And they work as well as any other loop, not counting extra tricks like phasing, etc. The size of the loop, IE: bigger, is only important if you actually have a low enough noise floor to take advantage of it. You have to be out in the country in most cases. Here in the big breast bearing city of Houston, my smaller loops work as well as the bigger ones. If the station listened to is strong, a ferrite stick is about as good as anything. Even my fairly small 16 inch round loop gives me enough voltage to be well over the city noise floor, with no preamp used. Only a coupling loop. It covers 500-2000 kc. Lower into LW, if I tack on extra fixed caps in parallel with the variable. To see an improvement over a normal bi-directional loop, a K9AY terminated loop, or something along those lines can be used. That IS an improvement over the average loop as it's unidirectional. Most run a pair, switched to change in 4 directions. Looks kinda like an eggbeater of sorts. MK |
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