06-04-2012, 09:50 PM
After building my first loop antenna, I discovered two problems. One, I don't have a good place to put it. Two, loop antennas are incompatible with cats (we have two). Searching the Internet I ran across an article about a Hula-Hoop-Loop, so I built one.
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The Hula-Hoop is about 33 inches in diameter. I pulled the hoop apart at the joint looped a four conductor telephone cord through two times. I connected one end of one conductor to the other end of the next conductor and so on to create eight loops. I added single wire loop for the sense loop. As it turns out it wouldn't tune the high end of the band. I removed two turns. Now I'm loosing a little of the low end. As I have time, I will play with this some more.
Steve
[Image: http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae335...4_3390.jpg]
The Hula-Hoop is about 33 inches in diameter. I pulled the hoop apart at the joint looped a four conductor telephone cord through two times. I connected one end of one conductor to the other end of the next conductor and so on to create eight loops. I added single wire loop for the sense loop. As it turns out it wouldn't tune the high end of the band. I removed two turns. Now I'm loosing a little of the low end. As I have time, I will play with this some more.
Steve
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