[Lowfer] Shielded Vs. Air Core Loops

[Dave and Julie Corrigan]

My experience has been that a good -balanced- air core loop will outperform 
the shielded loop.
Needs to have a decent mechanical design so its not to finicky.
Something along the lines of the Kiwa Electronics loop but scaled 
accordingly would really do you wonders.
-Dave
KB7SVP

At 08:28 PM 8/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>Assuming the following:
>
>1. Noisy, suburban neighborhood
>2. 4 foot diameter loop
>3. Remote tuned, with trenched coax and isolated connections
>at both ends.
>
>Given these parameters can someone tell me if a shielded loop
>or an unshielded air core loop would work best? Objective is
>weak signal lowfer, MW BCB, and 160 Meter DX receive antenna.
>
>73,
>
>Les Rayburn, N1LF
>
>
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