[BC] dual ferrite AM antenna

[Robert Meuser]

Willie:

If something costs $20 in parts it would have to sell for well over $80 unless 
you want to go broke.

R

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 01/03/2006 12:37:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> ranchorobbo at hotmail.com writes:
> 
> 
>>thanks willie; i'll look at those antenna plans.   c. crane does say in the 
>> faq for the unit that two can be used spread apart for even better 
>> reception, but that's a 200 buck antenna which is a little too serious for 
>> me.  in fact, $99 is too serious.
> 
> 
> For sure.
> 
> I also can't believe that they're getting almost $70 for the very same loop 
> antenna you can make for literally nothing (if you have the parts) or for 
> well-under $20, if you have to buy them. I could see getting $30-$35 for it, tho. 
> That would be reasonable. I dont' think $70 is reasonable for what it is.
> 
> I also have to laugh at one of thier pages, which claims that they *invented* 
> this (loop) antenna. Hmmm... I think that the loop antenna was invented long 
> before C.Crane ever existed.
> 
> 
>> btw, it turns out it's two coils on a 
>> single ferrite stick; not two separated loopsticks as I had previously 
>> thought.
> 
> 
> Interesting. So... what's the benefit, then? Two coils on the same core are, 
> effectively, one coil. (Or they are a transformer.) More technical tomfoolery 
> to confuse the unwashed masses into shelling-out more for a product than it 
> may be worth?
> 
> 
>> it is kind of interesting to me that there is a general consumer 
>> product and market for fringe AM reception.
> 
> 
> More than one! Browse the site, and you will see a number of products 
> intended to help pull-in the weak ones.
> 
> 
>>  I wonder how many of these 
>> they sell.
> 
> 
> Once IBUZ takes over... who knows? They could have a major run on them, or 
> people will simply give-up and they won't sell any. Unless the offending hash is 
> coming-in at close-to-a 90 degree angle, it's going to be very difficult to 
> null it all out. At home, WFIF and WTOP's signals arrive on azimuths only a few 
> degrees apart. Nulling is nigh impossible. Best I can do is bring WFIF's 
> signal in above WTOP's, and that's no easy task.
> 
> Willie...
> 
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