[Lowfer] Loopers are legal!

Tue, 02 Sep 2003 21:39:52 -0400

Mike,

In spite of being a little 'directionally deprived' I think you may just 
have the best argument yet for the legality of our loops. To celebrate your 
finding I'm headin out to connect up a larger tuning coil. Let me know how 
well I'm comin in! <G>

Eat your heart out Dex!

Bill

>From: "Mike Staines" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: [Lowfer] Loopers are legal!
>Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:26:00 -0400
>
>I was surprised to see all these worms on my desk.
>
>I came to the undeniable (to me) conclusion that the loops are legal after 
>I
>had a pleasant exchange of emails on the subject with someone who I won't
>identify. Let's just say he honestly does not feel that these loops are
>kosher.
>
>He made two points that were important to both of us, for our respective
>views:
>
>A> The 50 foot length applies to the distance that the electrons can flow
>and
>2> Even though electrons flow through it, the wire in the antenna matching
>coil is not counted as part of the antenna, it is part of the amplifier.
>
>After we agreed to disagree I went out and sat on my back stoop. About that
>time synapses in my brain that have not fired since the "Great Roman Party"
>of '70 suddenly kicked in. As I sat on my stoop, my loop antenna suddenly
>morphed into a single turn inductor connected to my amplifier. Rule 2 was
>applied: The 200 feet I had running through my trees DID NOT COUNT since it
>was part of the tuning circuit for the (non-existent) real antenna. I
>lowered the loop, connected a clip lead to the center of the upper portion,
>raised the antenna and tweaked the cap on the single-turn inductor in my
>matching network.
>
>So, now I have the shortest, most effective, Lowfer vertical on record: 6
>states on an 18" wire.
>
>73,
>Mike
>wm1ke
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John Davis
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 6:17 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Loopers are legal!
> >
> >
> > >For me, I was able to once again
> > >sleep nights by looking at it this way: ...
> >
> >
> > That's how Cousin Bubba was looking at the "55" sign on the
> > highway.  If the
> > bait shop, Granny's house, the beer cooler at the convenience store, and
> > home are each only 55 miles apart, and he can make the round trip in one
> > hour, then it's just 55 miles per hour.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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