Topband: 160m magnetic loop for receive

[John Randall]

I have completed my magnetic loop and it consists of a 1t primary and a 3t secondary inside a large hula loop 42" dia and wound with the same sense. The primary has a capacitor in series with the winding, which then connects to a binocular transformer ( common noise choke and isolation ), the other side of which connects to the coax feed point. The secondary has a 250/250pf airspaced variable cap across it but with another cap in series with the winding to resonate it on topband. On the desk, it works very well on rx, considering the indoor noise enviroment and the next step is to get it up on a pole at the bottom of the garden.
The nights are lonely on topband in the UK, with some same old same stations heard. Where is the DX heard, ANYWHERE EXCEPTING IN THE UK IT SEEMS. Sofar 4 stations worked on 1850 QRO.

73John -M0ELS