Re: Guy Atkin's Independent Testing of PL-380 7.5" Loopstick
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Tony Germanotta
Yea, mine was built for speed not beauty, but I used it for years to listen to the Phillies games in daylight here some 300 miles south of the transmitter. That's a much tougher task than just DXing, because you need a consistent signal and the ability to null out those pesky SAs when twilight falls or you miss Harry Kalas calling a historic home run. Harry's gone now, died of a heart attack in the booth last spring. And the 4-foot loop is still over at Chuck Ripple's compound waiting for me to find a large enough vehicle to transport it home or a warming trend so I can drop the top on my Miata and drape it around my shoulders once again.
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I have a nice work of art loop here that I bought at a silent auction years back at the old SWL Winterfest. It's an altazimuth model complete with preamp and works like a charm as the MW antenna for my Drake R8A. Coupled to a longwire and an MFJ phasing unit and I can do a lot with it. But it sure doesn't qualify for Ultra Light status. Yesterday at a meeting of our local antique radio club, one member brought in a single tube radio made in Germany that has a single tube that does the work of three. It was designed for the local market there to cheat on broadcast taxes that were based on how many tubes your radio had. Anyway, the thing used small, plug in air core loops wound in a combination of spiral and box format. They were only a couple inches large but amazingly beautiful. They looked like something out of string theory. On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:39 PM, jim_kr1s wrote:
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