Building your own tuned-loop AM antennas

[Texasrocker]

I have had an enormous amt of "interest" regarding this loop-antenna design. I helped a very nice fella in Austin ( via phone & emails) to help him construct his. He reported it was equally-amazing for reception after completed as mine is.
Ive tried several loop antenna construction-ideas via the net before, but none worked like this!!
I recently restored a 1927 Radiola 18 (TRF type chassis). It works well as can be expected via a 25'-35' outdoor longwire antenna as TRFs were never designed to be great sensitive-long distant receivers in the 1st place.
This loop-antenna design attached to the Radiola 18 trf, can "swing-in" very distant stations that the outdoor longwire doesnt even get, even during nighttime reception.
Simply by "rotating" the antenna, & tracking the antennas tuning-condenser along with receivers tuner, will simply-amaze you!! The real "success" of this antenna design, is the copper-loop, with one side of its "terminal-strip connector".. jump wired back to the antenna condensers "frame"! This allows for a direct connection via coax to ANY receivers chassis antenna connection.For radios with factory built-in ferrite-loop, or rear panel loops, simply sit the Radio next to this loop-antenna and it works equally amazing with no coax connection at all! The 2' x 2' design Works!!!! Build one, you will be glad you did!! Please post your results here!! Randal