[time-nuts] 60kHz Loop antenna

[J. Forster]

220 pF is about 8' of coax.

-John

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> The coil with 50T and 5 foot diameter is 11.5mH.  It would take about
> 220pf
> of self capacitance to make it resonate at 100KHz.
>
> Anyway, if the capacitance is too much, it's all in the way you splice the
> ends together in the conduit box.  If you want, you can make the loop a
> single
> turn with 50 parallel conductors.
>
> -Chuck Harris
>
> paul swed wrote:
>> I have used 25 pair telco cable.
>> The issue that can happen is the inter pair and strand capacitance can
>> exceed the resonance frequency of the loop. Or resonates below 60 KC.
>> Just a
>> heads up.
>> Using a 3 foot loop was not a problem.
>> Regards
>
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