?John that would be what is commonly used by AM broadcasters to monithey're signal.? If you do a search at the radio world website And search within the site You will find an excellent article about the construction.? Keywords would be broadcast loop monitor antenna.? If I find it 1st I will forward the link.? If you double up I'm all the wires It will take you down well below 200? Kilo Hertz.? I have built a few of these Both untuned and tune using a veractor.? That kind of antenna will yield a capture of about 15 to 20 Decibels less? than. A 160 meter dipole..... Just for your reference.? I use a small 15? Db preamp At the feed point.? But that really is not necessary if you're receiver has plenty of AGC.? Please keep us apprised of your progress.?
Yup, you are doing it correct, John. You can also consider the result to be a tapped coil and try using fewer turns if the resonant frequency of the loop is too low for your signal of choice. It sounds like you are making a tunable loop, so you may need to adjust the number of turns until it tunes the range you want. I'm not sure if multiple taps would let you create multiple tuning ranges without extra loss due to the unused turns. You might find some useful information in the various loop antenna builds on the W1VLF YouTube channel. Good luck! <> 73, Doug Reed, N0NAS.
