Experiment
with windings
of the secondary coil
The antenna
input of my radio is fed from a secondary coil of 4 windings;
I know one or two windings is sometimes recommended, but I use
it with a tube radio whos input impedance should be higher than
that of a transistorized set. After all the radio was designed
with a longwire in mind.
Experiment!
Try a one or two turn secondary. Sometimes you have to throw the
textbook and theory out the window. The original design for my
1 metre loop called for a single secondary winding, twisted about
the fourth turn of a seven turn primary winding. I tried various
coupling methods and eventually opted for a single turn spaced
2 cm below the fourth primary winding. Signal level became considerably
reduced, but null/peak increased. My Icom R71A countered the reduced
signal level. May, 1995 (Author of advice unknown)
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