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hi all hope someone can help me with this....I am in the middle of making a loop antenna..and got this from a ebay can someone tell me witch wires I I attach the coax to ....and are they for tunning diffirent bands on hf..many thanks in advance. as you can see there are four wires. :roll:
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gerald123 wrote: 03 Mar 2018, 11:31 DSCF4014.JPGDSCF4013.JPGDSCF4011.JPG hi all hope someone can help me with this....I am in the middle of making a loop antenna..and got this from a ebay can someone tell me witch wires I I attach the coax to ....and are they for tunning diffirent bands on hf..many thanks in advance. as you can see there are four wires. :roll:
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Thats a 3 gang device, you can combine them or use them independently to get the value range you require.
Cant help without knowing the size of your loop, the bands you require and the values of gangs.
I assume its a RX only loop? It will be no good TX unless QRP

If you just want to experiment, just use one of the gangs and see what happens, then a different one, then parallel a couple of them up etc
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can you tell me the mesurments the loop should be for80 40 and 20 metre bands please. thanks for replying.... the loop is for rx only...this is another one that I have
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Loop size isnt too important for RX, google RX loops there are plenty of examples,
http://ac0c.com/main/page_prior_antenna ... _loop.html shows one of many examples that have been knocked up.
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Tigersaw wrote: 03 Mar 2018, 14:41 Loop size isnt too important for RX, google RX loops there are plenty of examples,
http://ac0c.com/main/page_prior_antenna ... _loop.html shows one of many examples that have been knocked up.
thank you for the link ...verry usefull
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