Atwater Kent Model 43 "coffin style" find.

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I use a air core loop out of a 40's knight radio as an antenna for mine, and it only gets the local Milwaukee stations with decent volume. I can get the Chicago flamethrowers but with rather weak volume.

You are fortunate to be near enough to some big city "flamethrowers" that a small loop will work on an AK-40. The area around Ridgeway VA is *not* covered with strong signals (most of the closer ones are 5KW or less). I sometimes use 4.5 foot tuned outdoor loop for AM DXing with an Icom 8500 communications receiver. Although signal strength is much lower than that obtained with a 100 foot "longwire", noise is reduced considerably *and* it can be rotated to *null out* interfering stations
http://www.videokarma.org/attachment...8&d=1280607318

jr

Ridgeway AM :

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/loc...sort=freq&sid=


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