Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!koning.enet.dec.com
From: koning@koning.enet.dec.com (Paul Koning)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: magnetic antennas for HF
Message-ID: <21140@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 16:35:53 GMT
References: <3787@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com
Reply-To: koning@koning.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Co., distributed systems architecture
Lines: 13


|>    I am looking for pointers to companies selling magnetic antennas for
|>HF (loop or loop-stick.)  Automatic tuning would be preferable but is
|>not necessary.  The only place I could think of was Palamar Engineering,
|>and they are closed for a vacation.  Any guidance would be appreciated.
|>
I suppose you could buy them, but why not build them?  A loop antenna is
just a coil, and a stick antenna is a coil wound over a ferrite rod.
Ferrite rods can be obtained from Amidon (among others).

I never understand why people BUY wire antennas...

	paul