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> Place ferrite beads over the ends of the shield adjacent to the
> shield gap.
> You will now find that the shielded loop no longer receives anything.
> What happened to the shield's permeable magnetic coupling to the center
> wire? Could it be that currents on the shield's surface were travelling
> around the end of the gap to enter the inside of the shield and
> then couple
> to the center wire? Or mebbe the ferrite beads destroyed the shield's
> ability to continue to be magnetically permeable?
>
> If someone can explain this, I would like to hear it.
>
> 73, Doug / NX4D
Explanation: the ferrite beads are also surrounding the inner "antenna".
So that "explains" why it goes dead.
Rick N6RK
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