Well, here is my first post that makes me a member. I still don't
know what is going on with two groups, but spam happens, and I think
Yahoo sells the addresses of these groups.
I suggest a more constructive way of having two groups is to have
one group for all the shielded loop enthusiasts and another for
unshielded. I find all the shielded loop postings a bit useless -
as my designs go for maximum sensitivity - NOT noise reduction. The
moment I try to use shielded anything to construct a loop - the
sensitivity plummets. DUH - I am shielding the wire that is
supposed to pick up the signal. Now - if I use the shield of the
coax as my signal wire, I get good performance again.