[BC] AM loop receiving antennas

[Jerry Mathis]

I'm sure Willie will respond soon with a link to his plans for loop
antennas. He has a good plan, and his antennas work well.

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Jerry Mathis

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:14 PM, radioranger <radioranger at comcast.net>wrote:

> Does anyone have opinions on the various AM loop receiving antennas for
> sale
> out there?  I need something for an EAS receiver, and while my Chris Scott
> shielded loop works great, it's a bit spendy for the this purpose.  I know
> that Inovonics makes a loop, but can't find much on the web besides "build
> it yourself" instructions, and right now I don't have the time to do so.
>
> BTW, the standard little loop that came with a Rolls receiver doesn't have
> enough sensitivity to do the job.  I'm afraid that adding a pre-amp to one
> of those loops wouldn't work too well, as it's located at an AM transmitter
> site and I'm betting the local transmitter would just overload the preamp
> without some notch filtering in front of the pre-amp.
>
> Steve Brown
> Radio Rangers
> Minneapolis
>