[160m] Receiver Front End Saver Question

[Tom Rauch]

But now I have purchased the 8 foot diameter outdoor 160
meter coaxial magnetic loop antenna made by KC2TX for
receiving plus the KD9SV 160 meter preamplifier. I'm on 1/4
acreville and the loop will be mounted on a push up pole at
25 feet and unfortunately within 100 feet of the 160 meter
inverted L transmitting up to 1000 watts PEP. I now wonder
if I'm increasing the danger of damaging the front end of
the V Field and should I put a front end saver device in
line like the one KD9SV also makes?!>>>

I glanced at that page and I hope you are not building a
two-band loop. A small loop like that has very low impedance
off resonance. The last thing I'd  do is parallel connect
small loops tuned to different bands, since the loop for one
band would effectively short the other band out.

Single band would be OK, but without a matching system you
might want to consider placing the preamp at the loop.

Assuming your cables are good the first thing to go by a
large magin will be the preamp. The KD9SV preamp saturates
at low signal levels, and will be the protection for the
radio. Any "saver" should go between the preamp and the
loop. The FT1000 Field would be fine, unless you had an open
shield someplace.

Why do you want to have the loop up 25 feet?

73 Tom