[BC] AM loop receiving antennas

[Bruce Doerle]

Check out the Belar AM loop antennas, they make for both passive and active systems.  Broadcaster's General Store can order them.  They can be a bit pricy, but they are good.  At least three stations here in Orlando use them for EAS reception.  I can tell you, it overcame the building noise problems that I was having.

>>> On 7/16/2009 at 10:14 PM, in message
<200907170215.n6H2Ex6m028238 at mailscanner.virtbiz.com>, "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
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