KB2GOM
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I have already posted here about my desire to improve HF reception without resorting to an outside antenna, and I came up with this:
The results are markedly better than the whip antenna on my Satellit 800, but then the thought occurs: what would happen if I added another loop of wire around the room? Not in parallel, but in series, so that the total length of the antenna would be about 100 feet?
Do you think it would improve reception? Make it worse? No difference?
Inquiring minds want to know.
And before you tell me that what I really need to do is to put up an antenna outside where it can get some fresh air, I know that. Been there, done that, and I agree. But my shack being where it is, I have a serious problem with nearby power lines that, if Mr. Murphy comes to visit, could fall on an outside wire antenna and cause no end of havoc.
So humor a weird old guy with a radio and tell me if adding another loop to the horizontal room loop would do any good or not.
Jock designs a Horizontal Room Loop to cope with reception issues
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jock Elliott, who shares the following guest post: Got reception issues? An idea worth considering: the “Horizontal Room Loop.” by Jock Elliott (KB2GOM) When…
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The results are markedly better than the whip antenna on my Satellit 800, but then the thought occurs: what would happen if I added another loop of wire around the room? Not in parallel, but in series, so that the total length of the antenna would be about 100 feet?
Do you think it would improve reception? Make it worse? No difference?
Inquiring minds want to know.
And before you tell me that what I really need to do is to put up an antenna outside where it can get some fresh air, I know that. Been there, done that, and I agree. But my shack being where it is, I have a serious problem with nearby power lines that, if Mr. Murphy comes to visit, could fall on an outside wire antenna and cause no end of havoc.
So humor a weird old guy with a radio and tell me if adding another loop to the horizontal room loop would do any good or not.