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2337: 548: 1147: 1786: 1835:. Then consider a propagating radio wave also perpendicular to that plane. Since the magnetic (and electric) fields of an electromagnetic wave in free space are transverse (no component in the direction of propagation), it can be seen that this magnetic field and that of a small loop antenna will be at right angles, and thus not coupled. For the same reason, an electromagnetic wave propagating within the plane of the loop, with its magnetic field perpendicular to that plane, 2173: 53: 2146:. A typical AM broadcast radio loop antenna wound on ferrite may have a cross sectional area of only 1 cm (0.16 sq in) at a frequency at which an ideal (lossless) antenna would have an effective area some hundred million times larger. Even accounting for the resistive losses in a ferrite rod antenna, its effective receiving area may exceed the loop's physical area by a factor of 100. 2072: 1258: 1598: 1650:) is minimized if the perimeter is circular, making a circle the optimal shape for small loops. Small receiving loops are typically used below 14 MHz where human-made and natural atmospheric noise dominate. Thus the signal-to-noise ratio of the received signal will not be adversely affected by low efficiency as long as the loop is not excessively small. 1691: 2914:
AM station (preferably a weaker one) and rotating the radio in all horizontal directions. At a particular orientation (and at 180 degrees from it) the station will be in the direction of the ‘null’, that is, in the direction of the loopstick (normal to the loop). At that point reception of the station will fade out.
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Often, the antenna maker cuts the halo ends even shorter than needed to restore resonance, and moves the ends even closer together to increase the end capacitance, to make the halo radiation pattern more like a small loop: Even more nearly omnidirectional, with further reduced vertical radiation (for
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Because of their meager radiation resistance, the properties of small loops tend to more often be intensively optimized than are full-size antennas, and the properties optimized for transmitting are not quite the same as for receiving. With full-size antennas, the reciprocity between transmitting and
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Since AM broadcast radio is conventionally vertically polarized, the internal antennas of AM radios are loops in the vertical plane (that is, with the loopstick core, around which the loop is wound, horizontally oriented). One can easily demonstrate the directivity of such an antenna by tuning to an
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of the plate surfaces. Further, the high voltage tips of monopoles and dipoles typically are mounted high up and far out of reach, which limits opportunities for radio-frequency burns. In contrast, small loop antennas better tolerate being mounted close to the ground, so their high voltage parts are
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in that direction. Instead, the radiation pattern peaks in directions lying in the plane of the loop, because signals received from sources in that plane do not quite cancel owing to the phase difference between the arrival of the wave at the near side and far side of the loop. Increasing that phase
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Above about 10 MHz the loop is approximately 10 meters in diameter, and it becomes more practical for the loop to be mounted "standing up" – that is with the plane of the loop vertical, in order to direct its main beam towards the horizon. If the frequency is high enough, the loop might be
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the simplifying assumption of uniform current around the entire loop becomes untenably inaccurate. Since the larger halo also has a simple analysis, moderate-sized small loop antennas and their complicated analysis are often omitted, leaving many otherwise well informed antenna builders in the dark
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Loops in the small transmitting loops' size range may have neither the uniform current of very small loops, nor the sinusoidal current of large loops, and thus cannot be analyzed using the assumptions useful for the small receiving loops nor full-wave loop antennas. Performance is most conveniently
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properties important for receiving differ from those for transmitting – particularly below about 10~20 MHz – small loops intended for receiving have slight differences from small transmitting loops. They are discussed separately in following two subsections, although many of the comments apply
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The horizontal radiation pattern of a horizontal halo is nearly omnidirectional – to within 3 dB or less – and that can be evened out by making the loop slightly smaller and adding more capacitance between the element tips. Not only will that even out the gain, it will reduce upward radiation,
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However, as frequency rises there is no need to suffer bad performance: At the higher, quieter frequencies, the wavelengths become short enough that a halo antenna is small enough to be feasible – at 20 MHz it's a little less than 8 feet (2.4 m) in diameter, and proportionally shrinks as
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receiving loop is proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux through the loop. At higher frequencies (or shorter wavelengths), when the antenna is no longer electrically small, the current distribution through the loop may no longer be uniform and the relationship between its response and
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For the description of large loops in this section, the radio's operating frequency is assumed to be tuned to the loop antenna's first resonance. At that frequency, one whole free-space wavelength is slightly smaller than the perimeter of the loop, which is the smallest that a "large" loop can be.
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the size of the antenna's main loop, which gives transform ratios of 64:1 to 25:1, respectively. Adjusting the proximity and angle of the feeder loop to the main loop, and distorting the feeder's shape, both make small to moderate changes the transform ratio, and allows for fine adjustment of the
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The antenna can be described as "self-resonant" in the sense that if you short the antenna terminals, then a current in the loop will be created in response to an electromagnetic wave, and the relative magnitude of that current will be greatly increased around the resonant frequency. The antenna
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also generates high voltages at the antenna end(s) and in the loading coil, however unlike capacitors, the high voltage difference is evenly spread along the length of the coil, and as a precaution it usually is intentionally made physically longer and more slender than the more efficient stubby
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A small transmitting loop antenna with a perimeter of 10% or less of the wavelength will have a relatively constant current distribution along the conductor, and the main lobe will be in the plane of the loop, so they will show the strong null familiar in the radiation pattern of small receiving
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Small loops have advantages as receiving antennas at frequencies below 10 MHz. Although a small loop's losses can be high, the same loss applies to both the signal and the noise, so the receiving signal-to-noise ratio of a small loop may not suffer at these lower frequencies, where received
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Small loop receiving antennas are also almost always resonated using a parallel plate capacitor, which makes their reception narrow-band, sensitive only to a very specific frequency. This allows the antenna, in conjunction with a (variable) tuning capacitor, to act as a tuned input stage to the
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losses. Elaborate “basket weave” patterns are used at all frequencies to reduce inter-winding capacitance in the coil insuring that the loop self-resonance is well above the operating frequency, so that it acts as an electrical inductor that can be resonated with a tuning capacitor, and with a
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Surprisingly, the radiation and receiving pattern of a small loop is perpendicular to that of a large self resonant loop (whose perimeter is close to one wavelength). Since the loop is much smaller than a wavelength, the current at any one moment is nearly constant round the circumference. By
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For example, at 1 MHz the man-made noise might be 55 dB above the thermal noise floor. If a small loop antenna's loss is 50 dB (as if the antenna included a 50 dB attenuator) the electrical inefficiency of that antenna will have little influence on the receiving system's
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At the lower shortwave frequencies a full loop is physically quite large, and its only practical installation is "lying flat", with the plane of the loop horizontal to the ground and the antenna wire supported at the same relatively low height by masts along its perimeter. This results in
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If both the main and the feeder loops are single-turn, the impedance transformation ratio of the nested loops is almost exactly the ratio of the areas of the two loops separately, or the square of the ratio of their diameters (assuming they have the same shape). Typical feeder loops are
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of a resonant loop antenna is not obvious from the orientation of the loop itself, but depends on the placement of its feedpoint. If a vertically oriented loop is fed at the bottom, its radiation will be horizontally polarized; feeding it from the side will make it vertically polarized.
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spectrum according CCIR 322. The diagram shows how both man-made noise ("interference", "QRM") and natural atmospheric noise ("static", "QRN") both fall precipitously above 20 MHz, but as frequencies fall below 10 MHz their combined power climbs as the frequency
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in only one (less precise) direction. The general direction of the transmitter can be determined using the sense antenna, and then disconnecting the sense antenna returns the sharp nulls in the loop antenna pattern, allowing a precise bearing to be determined.
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For loops larger than 1 wavelength perimeter, the directive gain increases slightly up to a perimeter of 1.4 wavelengths, but for larger circular loops the radiation pattern becomes multilobed and the perpendicular radiation vanishes or is greatly
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is inductive, with an inductive reactance much greater than its radiation resistance. In order to couple to a transmitter or receiver, the inductive reactance is normally canceled with a parallel capacitance. Since a good loop antenna will have a high
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a direct substitute for a small loop. Although a halo will have bandwidth comparable to a dipole near its design frequency, no current design can retune a halo to the wide a range of different frequencies that are obtained from a variably tuned small
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or smaller ensure the sharpness of the loop's receiving null. Small loops intended for transmitting (see below) are designed as large as feasible to improve the marginal radiation resistance, sacrificing the sharp null by using perimeters as large as
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reproduce small receiving loops' famously sharp nulls. Since halo can be either vertically or horizontally mounted, like the small receiving loop it replaces, it can provide a similar bidirectional or omnidirectional reception pattern, respectively.
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Small loops are "small" in comparison to their operating wavelength. Contrary to the pattern of large loop antennas, the reception and radiation strength of small loops peaks inside the plane of the loop, rather than broadside (perpendicular) to it.
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voltage across the capacitor at the loop's gap. For a given frequency, a smaller small loop is more dangerous than a larger small loop, and perversely, a comparatively efficient small transmitting loop is more dangerous than an inefficient one.
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coupled to the magnetic field of the coil. Since the transverse magnetic and electric fields of a propagating electromagnetic wave are at right angles, the electric field of such a wave is also in the plane of the loop, and thus the antenna's
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A typical diameter of receiving loops with "air centers" is between 30 and 100 cm (1 and 3.5 feet). To increase the magnetic field in the loop and thus its efficiency, while greatly reducing size, the coil of wire is often wound around a
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Thus mounting the loop in a horizontal plane will produce an omnidirectional antenna which is horizontally polarized; mounting the loop vertically yields a vertically polarizated, weakly directional antenna, but with an exceptionally sharp
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loop, since loop antennas that small are only practical for receiving. Several performance factors, including received power, scale in proportion to the loop's area. For a given loop area, the length of the conductor (and thus its net
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One practical issue with small loops as transmitting antennas is that a small transmitting loop will not only have a very large current going through it, but also has a very high voltage across the capacitor – typically thousands of
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become so inefficient they are rarely used for transmission. A common example of small loop is the ferrite (loopstick) antenna used in most AM broadcast radios. The radiation pattern of small loop antennas is maximum at directions
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the incident fields becomes more complicated. In the case of transmission, the fields produced by an electrically small loop are the same as an "infinitesimal magnetic dipole" whose axis is perpendicular to the plane of the loop.
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of a first-resonance loop antenna peaks at right angles to the plane of the loop. As the frequency progresses to the second and third resonances the perpendicular radiation fades and strong lobes near the plane of the loop arise.
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circumference halo antenna is already self-resonant. However, since end-capacitance is present even if not needed, to restore resonance the dipole-sized arms must each be trimmed back from the conventional 97% of a quarter-wave.
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that also tunes the receiver's input stage as that capacitor tracks the main tuning. A multiband receiver may contain tap points along the loop winding in order to tune the loop antenna at widely different frequencies.
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frequencies, the feeder loop can be one or two turns on the same frame as the main loop's turns, in which case the impedance transform ratio is very nearly the square of the ratio of the number of turns on each loop.
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In contrast, at quieter frequencies at about 20 MHz and above, an antenna with a 50 dB loss could degrade the received signal-to-noise ratio by up to 50 dB, resulting in terrible performance.
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capacitor could also be used to cancel the reactive impedance, doing so results in the receiver (or transmitter) seeing a very small (resistive) impedance. On the other hand, a parallel capacitor creates a
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shape. The high voltage is generally troublesome only on the upper end of the coil when it is spread across the extended coil length, whereas high voltages on capacitor plates are (ideally) at maximum over
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loop antennas, but are designed to couple with the inductive near-field, over distances of 1–2 meters (3–7 feet), rather than to transmit or receive long-distance electromagnetic waves in the
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symmetry it can be seen that the voltages induced in the loop windings on opposite sides of the loop, will cancel each other when a perpendicular signal arrives on the loop axis. Therefore, there is a
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loops are compact antennas optimized to capture radio waves much longer than their size, where full-sized antennas would be either infeasible or impossible. If their perimeters are kept shorter than
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The main drawback of substitute a halo for a small receiving loop is that normal halos can only operate on the band surrounding the single frequency they are sized for: In that regard a halo is
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A transmitting loop usually consists of a single turn of large diameter conductor; they are typically round or octagonal to provide maximum enclosed area for a given perimeter, hence maximizing
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Wasted power is undesirable for a transmitting antenna, however for a receiving antenna, the inefficiency is not important at frequencies below about 15 MHz. At these lower frequencies,
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Loop antennas may be in the shape of a circle, a square or any other closed geometric shape that allows the total perimeter to be slightly more than one wavelength. The most popular shape in
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that has been bent into a circle. Although it could be categorized as a bent dipole, it has the omnidirectional radiation pattern very nearly the same as a small loop. The halo is more
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AM broadcast receivers (and other low frequency radios for the consumer market) typically use small loop antennas, even when a telescoping antenna may be attached for FM reception. A
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shape. The loop's shape can be a circle, triangle, square, rectangle, or in fact any closed polygon, but for resonance the loop perimeter must be slightly larger than a wavelength.
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efficiency improvements will tend to increase the gap voltage: Efficiency may be increased by making the loop from a thicker conductor; other measures to lower the conductor's
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In military use, the antenna may be built using a one or two conductors 2.5–5 cm (1–2 inches) in diameter. The loop itself is typically 1.8 m (6 feet) in diameter.
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are used for transmitting antennas, although their construction requires fastidious efforts to minimize loss resistance; the practical lower size-limit is somewhere around
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of transmitter power. The smaller the loop (in wavelengths) the higher the voltage. This requires a rather expensive and physically large resonating capacitor with a large
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the frequency increases. So the quieter the rising frequency gets, the more convenient it is to replace an small receiving loop with a larger, but still relatively compact
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radiating part with a high voltage and zero current at its ends) that has been bent into a circle. Simply using dipole results greatly simplifies the calculations and for
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that have been bent into a circular loop, with the ends not quite touching. Some writers prefer to exclude them from loop antennas, since they can be well-understood as
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direction. Since the null occurs at two opposite directions along the axis of the loop, other means must be employed to determine which side of the antenna the
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and the G0CWT (Edginton) loop. For brevity, introductory articles on small loop antennas sometimes confine discussion to loops smaller in circumference than
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inside the area surrounded by the main loop. Although it may / should still be connected through the ground system, this leaves the main loop with no other
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reception would be blocked by the metal of the chassis and the dashboard. Car radios must use external antennas, which are essentially never ferrite loops.
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signal is on. One method is to rely on a second loop antenna located at a second location, or to move the receiver to that other location, thus relying on
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If fed with higher frequencies the antenna input impedance will generally include a reactive part and a different resistive component, requiring use of an
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techniques such as a gamma match, small receiving and transmitting loops are sometimes impedance matched by connecting the feedline to an even smaller
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Another way of looking at a small loop as an antenna is to consider it simply as an inductive coil coupling to the magnetic field in the direction
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from falling to unusably low levels; their larger sizes blur or erase the otherwise especially sharp nulls small receiving loops provide.
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that increases with each additional parasitic element. This design can also be turned 45 degrees to a diamond shape supported on a ‘
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Instead of triangulation, a second dipole or vertical antenna can be electrically combined with a loop or a loopstick antenna. Called a
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difference by increasing the size of the loop causes a disproportionately large increase in the radiation resistance, and the resulting
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Since a halo antenna is a half-wave, it will deliver a strong signal to the receiver – essentially equally strong as a conventional
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they have exceptionally precise "null" directions (where the signal vanishes) which gives a tiny antenna for exceedingly accurate
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include welding or brazing the connections, rather than soldering. But because reducing loss resistance increases the antenna's
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Small loop antenna used for receiving, consisting of about 10 turns around a 12-by-10-centimeter (4.5-by-4-inch) rectangle.
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produces a very large resistive impedance at the feedpoint, thus provides a much larger voltage to the receiver's input stage.
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generated in the radio receiver's own circuitry, so the weak signal from a loop antenna can be amplified without degrading the
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horizontally-polarized radiation, which peaks toward the vertical near the lowest harmonic; that pattern is good for regional
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An important exception is that radios built for installation inside metal car bodies cannot contain antennas, since their
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called "antennas" in the trade. However, they are more usefully thought of as analogs to the windings in loosely coupled
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properties are the same as a halo. Halo performance can also be modeled with techniques used for similar, moderate-sized
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of operation, hence for circular loops diameters between roughly 175 ft (53 m) at the largest, around 1.8 
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in the mid-20th century, the antenna might consist of dozens of turns of wire mounted on the back wall of the radio – a
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Broyde, F.; Clavelier, E. (January 2023). "The Open-Circuit Voltage of a Planar Wire Loop Antenna Used for Reception".
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A halo's reception pattern is close to that of the small loop it would replace, the major exception being that it will
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of loop antennas. Distance from the origin is proportional to the power density in that direction. The full wave loop
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connection to the transmitter. The feeder loop and the main loop are effectively the primary and secondary coils of a
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Small loop antennas are lossy and inefficient for transmitting, but they can be practical receiving antennas in the
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As with all antennas that are physically much smaller than the operating wavelength, small loop antennas have small
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or "quad", a self-resonant loop in a square shape so that it can be constructed of wire strung across a supporting ‘
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if possible), in order to make the best their generally poor efficiency, although doing so sacrifices sharp nulls.
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loops are optimized for compact antennas that are the "least-worst" signal radiators. Small antennas of any kind
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Small transmitting loops are “small” in comparison to a full wavelength, but considerably larger than a “small”
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by using multiple turns is analogous to making a dipole out of two or more parallel lines for each dipole arm ("
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Inclusion of a magnetically permeable core increases the radiation resistance of a small loop, mitigating the
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bands and above, the physical diameter of a halo is small enough to be effectively used as a mobile antenna.
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Making the loop larger in diameter will lower the gap voltage, as well as improving efficiency, however all
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The loss resistance includes not only the DC resistance of the conductor but also its increase due to the
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pose a greater threat in small loops than most other small antennas, and demand greater caution, even for
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rod. They are almost universally used in AM broadcast receivers. Other names for this type of antenna are
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Although a full 2.7 m (9 feet) in diameter, this receiving antenna is a "small" loop compared to the
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configuration – with only one of the loops being driven by the feedline and all the remaining loops being
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is not available, small loops can provide adequate communications with low, but tolerable efficiency.
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than the extraordinary performance of full-sized, self-resonant loops, or the moderate efficiency of
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problems raised by capacitive loading of small loops is more serious than for inductive loading of
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The procedure is to rotate the loop antenna to find the direction where the signal vanishes – the
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If the perimeter of a loop antenna is much smaller than the intended operating wavelengths – say
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communication, but unfortunately is not generally useful for making continental-scale contacts.
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of all antenna types for both transmission and reception. Large loop antennas have a two-lobe
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Some writers mistakenly consider the gap in the halo antenna's loop to distinguish it from a
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Note however, that the increased resistance measured at the feedpoint is the result of an
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in the direction normal to the plane of the loop, so small loops are favored as compact
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due to ohmic losses. Like all small antennas, such antennas are tiny compared to their
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Small loops divide into two sub-types, depending on the purpose they are optimized for:
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operate at radio frequencies, and they involve the use of small magnetic coils, which
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with reduced size is more extreme. The ability to increase the radiation resistance
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frequencies are relatively large, with a perimeter just greater than the intended
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loops. Loops of any size between 10% and 30% of a wavelength in perimeter, up to
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being "resonant" also implies that the input impedance of the antenna, which is
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along the axis of the loop. Size criteria that favor loops with a perimeter of
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feedpoint impedance. For main loops with multiple turns, more often used for
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Low frequency one wavelength loops "lying down" are sometimes used for local
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of radiated power or less – feasible when a 100 W transmitter is used.
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alternating magnetic fields, their performance criteria are dissimilar to
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Tildon, Edward P. (December 1956). "Polarization effects in VHF mobile".
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Ferrite loopstick antenna from an AM radio having two windings, one for
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loops' perimeters are instead made as large as feasibly possible, up to
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Low Profile Amateur Radio: Operating a ham station from almost anywhere
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A halo antenna does not need capacitive end-loading, since the nearly
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receiving usually makes the distinctions unimportant, but since a few
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the plane of the loop, so perpendicular to the maxima of large loops.
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is a self-resonant loop in a square shape; this one also includes a
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whose parallel wires have been split apart and opened out into some
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of a small loop is generally much smaller than the loss resistance
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regarding the performance obtainable with moderately small loops.
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connection between the two ends. But that distinction is lost at
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can conveniently be analyzed as a dipole (which also has a half-
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at their first, full-wave resonance, peaking in both directions
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more often within easy reach. So the high voltages from high
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Halos pick up less nearby electrical spark interference than
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due to the conductors composing the loop, leading to a poor
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antenna. Such ferrite loop antennas are used in almost all
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Although it has a superficially different appearance, the
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Excem Research Papers in Electronics and Electromagnetics
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is the number of turns of the conductor around the loop.
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in a portable radio, consisting of a wire wound around a
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Austin, B.A.; Boswell, A.; Perks, M.A. (1 August 2014).
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Rudge, A.W.; Milne, K.; Olver, A.D.; Knight, P. (1982).
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cancels the antenna's susceptance, the loop + capacitor
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antennas are usually enclosed inside the radio receiver.
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needs to be outside the obstructing metal car chassis.
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reflectors and directors. The latter is widely used in
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consisting of a loop or coil of wire, tubing, or other
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Loss mechanisms in the electrically small loop antenna
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Danzer, Paul (September 2004). "A 6 meter halo".
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Since a small loop antenna is essentially a coil, its
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of a wavelength – then the antenna is called a small
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Although they are not radio antennas, these systems
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functioning for the purpose they are designed for).
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in circumference with its disproportionately larger
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Newnes guide to radio and communications technology
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New York: McGraw-Hill. ch. 19 p. 21. 2771:) attaches to the radiating part of the antenna. 2516:systems, regardless of whether they are used at 1957:Loop antenna, receiver, and accessories used in 1796:emits maximum power broadside to the wires with 727:; loops with a circumference smaller than about 2635:at most frequencies, becomes purely resistive ( 1961:at 80-meter/260-foot wavelength (3.5 MHz). 3295:(second ed.). Butterworths. p. 303. 3272:Dean, Charles E. (1959). Henney, Keith (ed.). 3052: 3050: 3048: 2489:Some so-called "antennas" look very much like 2224:. Antennas within this size range include the 3546: 2365:the consequence of better efficiency is even 2051:In AM radios built prior to the invention of 559:; the most common type of loop antenna today. 528: 8: 3349:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 3267: 3265: 3223: 3221: 2204:, but where space for a full wave loop or a 1187:– ignition noise from vehicles for example. 3451:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 3018: 3016: 3014: 3012: 3010: 2188:. The smaller of these loops are much less 1334:is proportional to the square of the area: 900:Large loop antennas can be thought of as a 859:as possible (although usually no more than 3553: 3539: 3531: 3353:) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 3293:Soft Ferrites: Properties and applications 3118:Straw, R. Dean; et al., eds. (2007). 1571:The small loop antenna is also known as a 1176:is typically wasted: Radiated into space. 1047:communication. This is sometimes called a 1017:in the two favored horizontal directions. 885:Self-resonant loop antennas for so-called 535: 521: 31: 2984: 2982: 2980: 2157: 1681:Small loop antennas are also popular for 1424: 1412: 1389: 1379: 1370: 1369: 1368: 1349: 1348: 1342: 1308: 1307: 1298: 1212: 1208: 1131: 1040:in the "quad" configuration (see photo). 827: 819: 773: 765: 652: 630:, of all antenna designs of similar size. 2335: 1670:receivers with the notable exception of 1470:length squared = 2nd power) the fall in 964:’ shaped frame. Triangular loops (‘ 3063:(4th ed.). 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Vol. 2. p. 688. 2415:In addition to other common 1674:, since the antenna for the 1494:atmospheric noise and static 1269:wavelengths it is used with. 136:Counterpoise (ground system) 3374:American Radio Relay League 3124:American Radio Relay League 2615:discussed in this article. 1532: wave at most). Small 1239:current crosses the gap as 592:self-resonant loop antennas 389:Friis transmission equation 4029: 3495:. Magnetic loop antennas. 3430:. Magnetic loop antennas. 3368:Brogdon, A. (April 2007). 3276:Radio Engineering Handbook 3246:Handbook of Antenna Design 2884:'s received signal power. 2591:transmitting or receiving 2304:Power limits and RF safety 1209:"small" transmitting loops 1065: 226:Municipal wireless network 3885:Regenerative loop antenna 3467:"Small transmitting loop" 3339:– via qsl.net/k4fk. 2331:vacuum variable capacitor 2275:Use for land-mobile radio 1575:since the response of an 1160:. 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Index

Magnetic loop
a series
Antennas

Common types
Dipole
Fractal
Loop
Monopole
Satellite dish
Television
Whip
Balun
Block upconverter
Coaxial cable
Counterpoise (ground system)
Feed
Feed line
Low-noise block downconverter
Passive radiator
Receiver
Rotator
Stub
Transmitter
Tuner
Twin-lead
Antenna farm
Amateur radio
Cellular network
Hotspot

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