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              with windings of the secondary coil
 The antenna 
                input of my radio is fed from a secondary coil of 4 windings; 
                I know one or two windings is sometimes recommended, but I use 
                it with a tube radio whos input impedance should be higher than 
                that of a transistorized set. After all the radio was designed 
                with a longwire in mind.  
               Experiment! 
                Try a one or two turn secondary. Sometimes you have to throw the 
                textbook and theory out the window. The original design for my 
                1 metre loop called for a single secondary winding, twisted about 
                the fourth turn of a seven turn primary winding. I tried various 
                coupling methods and eventually opted for a single turn spaced 
                2 cm below the fourth primary winding. Signal level became considerably 
                reduced, but null/peak increased. My Icom R71A countered the reduced 
                signal level. May, 1995 (Author of advice unknown) 
               
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