Am loop antenna

Find great deals on eBay for Am Loop Antenna in Radio Parts and Accessories. A loop antenna is a radio antenna consisting of a loop or coil of wire, tubing, or other electrical conductor usually fed by a balanced source or feeding a balanced load. AM radio reception can be a little tricky, given its highly directional nature.

However, the characteristics of a well-built loop antenna and a commercially purchased. The ultimate AM loop antenna article. It is the only article that includes the calculations and detailed plans A Small Wire Loop Antennas for 1meters Low noise, receive only coax loop antennas for 1- meters HF bands Cheap antenna to make from 16. Delta loop antenna quad loop antenna atu hf.

This item is a few years ol so may not be good for digital. See complete description Notify me. A loop antenna , as the name implies consists of a loop or number of loops made of copper wire wound on a nonconductive frame. The frame is generally made by joining. The idea with such a loop relates to tuning the simple coil (L) capacitor (C) parallel combo so that the pair resonate at a frequency in the band of interest.

AM Broadcast Band Loop Antenna , Very Effective. There is a typo in the video around 1:40. Not Tunes but Turns.

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An AM loop antenna is one of the true marvels of electronics. Requiring no power, it takes advantage of the resonant properties of an inductor and a capacitor connected in parallel to receive weak AM stations. The physics of resonance allows it to have substantial gain, even though it is comprised of passive components! The loop part of the antenna is the inductor, and the tuning capacitor. The tuned loop antenna may also include a second “pickup” loop which is connected to the antenna input of the radio receiver.

This pickup loop acts as an impedance matching secondary winding to better transfer the signal to the receiver. If it is omitte the receiver input is taken directly from the tuned winding, and other means may be required to impedance match to the receiver. The radio antenna is switched between the loop coupling coil, or an external antenna and ground. The other switch is a high low band switch and adds a 3pf capacitor across the 3pf variable capacitor. A larger value of variable capacitor would tune the whole band in one chunk.

Indeed there are two different types of loop antennas , The first of these is the ferrite bar as build into practically every portable radio, the other is wound on an air-core form, and is far less popular with radio manufacturers because of its size, this is known as a. The AM antenna is normally inside the radio. An AM antenna is made up of wire wrapped into a loop. Over time, these antennas can lose their power and are difficult to repair.

An external antenna can be made to improve the reception of any radio. Several years ago, I became interested in medium wave DXing. One of my limitations was the size of my yar so I. Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Hemphill (WD9EQD), who writes with the following update to his previous post: As you may remember, back in May, I picked. The Tecsun AN-1AM Loop Antenna is designed to increase the reception of weak AM radio signals. Loop antennas can be a bit difficult.

Q resonant circuit, many kilovolts of RF voltage can be present across the tuning capacitor and appropriate safety precautions must be taken. Small transmitting loop antennas capable of handling a full 4Watts PEP or grea.