I have a yamaha reciever, that has an am antenna hookup with an "in"
and a ground. It came with a small plastic loop antenna, that doesn't
quite seem to get the station I want. So i searched am antennas
online to find LOTS of info, and some plans, but they all seem to be
to big or overly complex for my needs. what I'm looking for is plans
for an antenna for a modern reciever with the antenna hookups I
desribed. and not too huge, maybe like 2 feet or so in diameter. It
seems to me that most of the stuff I have read deals more with the
construction of the frame and stuff, and less about the wiring etc. I
will have no problem figuring out a sutible frame design and what I
was really looking for was a simple description of the correct
windings for a said diameter. Also I'm not sure how to hook it up to
the reciever, do I need this "coupling winding"? Or in my case do I
just hook up the main windings to the antenna hookup on the reciever.
Also, there is no variable resistor on the little plastic loop that
came with the reciever, does this mean that I don't need one if I
build my own?
I thank you for any comments/ suggestions that would help me out. I
don't think I will be getting into this as a hobby or anything, I was
just hoping to make one that would get the station I want, which is
570 AM, which has somwe interesting stuff on it at night, but it
would be cool if the loop worked through the whole band decently also
as I thought it might be fun to surf the whole spectrum for some cool
talk shows.
Thanx again in advance,
chris
