Re: [IRCA] Antenna experiment

["Craig Healy" <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig Healy wrote:
>>I made a new loop antenna today, and initial results are very encouraging.
>
>This setup sounds a little like a Wellbrook 1530 loop and a heck of a
>lot cheaper...Now if only I could solder plumbing pipe LOL.

Soldering is easy.  All it takes is a propane torch (cheap), some steel
wool, flux and solder.  All Home Depot or Lowe's stuff.  The pipe was cheap
and it took under a half hour to build.

I Googled up the Wellbrook, and you're right.  It may be the same sort of
thing.  The toroid coupler was nothing to build.  At ten feet per side it's
a lot bigger than the Wellbrook, and harder to mount.  Nothing says it has
to be built that big.  One half the size may work nearly as well.  I may
build a small one to test.  It's certainly easy enough.

We'll see what tomorrow's testing shows.

Craig Healy
Providence, RI


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