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Then check this article out from SWLing.com
I would hesitate about putting the wire directly on the wood if you decide to use, say a fence, with this design. I've heard of cases where when the wood gets wet, it can couple (albeit poorly since wood is non-conductive when dry) with the wire and detune it. You could use some stand offs to keep that from happening.
There's a lot of possibilities here, and how you want to feed and tune this (it's not quite a real 'loop' per se) can be experimented with pretty easily...Mike
Guest Post: KK5JY’s Porch Loop Receiving Antenna
Many thanks to Matt Roberts (KK5JY) who has kindly given me permission to re-post the following article he recently published on his website KK5JY.net. Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Grayh…
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I would hesitate about putting the wire directly on the wood if you decide to use, say a fence, with this design. I've heard of cases where when the wood gets wet, it can couple (albeit poorly since wood is non-conductive when dry) with the wire and detune it. You could use some stand offs to keep that from happening.
There's a lot of possibilities here, and how you want to feed and tune this (it's not quite a real 'loop' per se) can be experimented with pretty easily...Mike
