Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (mag loop)

2012-05-10 Thread David Cutter
It will be quiet on receive and quiet on transmit, however much power you put into it, until it melts, that is. I'd love to know where he gets his efficiency figures - perhaps you can ask him. Putting steel washers at each aluminium joint turned me off completely along with the dinky

Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (mag loop)

2012-05-10 Thread CRAIG W BEHRENS
From: d.cut...@ntlworld.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (mag loop) It will be quiet on receive and quiet on transmit, however much power you put into it, until it melts, that is. I'd love to know where he gets his efficiency figures - perhaps you can

Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (mag loop)

2012-05-10 Thread Arthur Burke
I bookmarked the site - thank you. However, I didn't get very far the first time when I saw the comment must be 1/2 wavelength above the ground... Still would like to go back and review the entire article. Brings back a humorous dialog from years ago. One ham expressed the desire to build a

Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (mag loop)

2012-05-10 Thread David Cutter
I agree about the statement re height above ground which needed qualifiying a little particularly as they then made measurements somewhat less than that. The main thrust is about losses and the more removed from ground and nearby objects the less the loss due to the very high intensity of the

Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (mag loop)

2012-05-10 Thread Arthur Burke
I have a small magnetic loop that's used strictly for receiving. It's a Pixel loop with a preamp (from the same company) and I was astounded at how well it works. I located it about 10 feet up on a rotor, about 50 feet away from the house. It is incredibly broadbanded. While it doesn't quite hear

Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (mag loop)

2012-05-10 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
It was presented at a QRP conference, after all (and I'm more of a QRO proponent) so I imagine the dinky capacitor didn't worry them too much. My MFJ loop is working pretty darn well so far. I'm sure I'll have to take it down and fix it eventually, but I have 54 countries worked this year since I