[Milsurplus] "Across The Pacific" PBS Documentary Premiers tonight! (North Carolina)

[Nick England]

In Brian's new talk, you can see the "toroidal" winding of the loop at 18:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxo5xX9RtMg&feature=youtu.be

I don't know why, but there it is.
Nick


On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:23 AM MICHAEL BITTNER <mmab at cox.net> wrote:

> Ken, I have thought all along that your suggestion about the movie-makers
> misunderstanding the method of winding the loop is the answer. It typically
> takes about 100 feet of wire to wind a broadcast band loop, so it would
> take very much more for a resonant low frequency loop.  In any case, if you
> are going to wind a toroid, you would keep the wire on its spool and pass
> the spool around the arms of the loop as it unwinds rather than dragging
> 100+ feet of wire along the floor.  Mike,W6MAB
>
>
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