[IRCA] Brent's cooper loop email

["Brent Taylor" <btaylor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The email below was sent over 18 hours before it appeared on the list.  So
please disregard its repetitive, redundant, nature.  When it was sent it was
timely....honest!

BT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brent Taylor
> Sent: November 11, 2005 7:29 AM
> To: 'Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America'
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] IRCA Loop update
> 
> Well, the outer diameter of a conductor is really what gives 
> it the capacity
> to handle current, due to the "skin effect."   I wonder if 
> the collective
> outer diameter surface area of Craig's cooper pipe loop is 
> sufficient to overcome the collective outer diameter surface 
> area of all of the wires in a wire loop.  Mathematically I 
> can see how it could be the case.  Maybe the RF capture 
> success is directly related to the surface area of the antenna.
> 
> The ability to conduct current, and the ability to snag 
> microvolts from the ether, are undoubtedly related in some 
> way.  To take maximum advantage of surface area, maybe we 
> could DX with a big brass sphere behind a curved, rotatable 
> "nulling" shield.
> 
> Get on that, Craig!
> 
> 
> Brent Taylor, VE1JH
> Doaktown, NB  FN66
> 6M VUCC #418, AMSAT #33576  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Hawkins
> > Sent: November 11, 2005 6:38 AM
> > To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
> > Subject: Re: [IRCA] IRCA Loop update
> 
> > I am very puzzled by this.  It seems to me that a copper 
> tubing loop 
> > would just look like a very thick piece of wire
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 
> > Does anyone have any thoughts that might shed some light on this.
> > 
> > Steve
> 
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