Shortwavewave said:
I say Dipole but its not really, its just a wire ran half way through the toroid so its equal on both sides in lenght
These seem to work just fine..wish they were a little bigger but radioshack doesnt give any specs on them.
No, but they do give some applications, all of which indicate that these are intended to be power supply filters. Ferrite and powdered iron toroid cores are manufactured using different mixes, each mix having an optimized frequency range or purpose. These aren't optimized for RF, so their actual effectiveness is going to be questionable.
Shortwavewave said:
And by crossover I dont know what the trems for it is but I will put the toroid between the wire and the coax and the vari cap betwee the coax and the rx.
Well, that will certainly have some impact on how the antenna operates, but who knows how...
Shortwavewave said:
And I have about 7 antennas laying around, and 2 more conntected to my rx, I just like soldering and making new stuff, but dont have to money to go for a real radio building kit or starting from scratch.
You may want to consider investing your limited resources on a book, like the ARRL Antenna Handbook, which not only shows how to make antennas that actually work, it shows how they work. Many of the antennas shown can be made for almost zero cost. Did I mention that they actually work?
Shortwavewave said:
What im trying to achive is a antenna that will get me all the signal with no noise becuase of my cave dwelling location, isnt that what everyone wants??
It certainly is. There are some very effective, well proven ways of doing just that, but randomly hooking power supply toroids and capacitors probably isn't going to turn out to be one of them. By all means, experiment, learn, and have fun. But you may find it more cost effective, and even more fun, to see what's been shown to work, and attempt to duplicate it. Unless the real goal is to just solder stuff together.
