At last got my CCW loop up outside on a pole, its just above the roof in the clear.
Its mounted on top of a yeasu rotator and set up for direction where my previous loop was.
The direction a normal loop receives is, simply put, when riding a bicycle the direction of the wheel is in the direction of the bicycle as is a loop antenna and signals.
My question is the CCW loop direction of signals the same ?
I hope it is as thats how i have set the rotator.
Thanks
Les

On 30 Jan 2019, at 16:42, Chris Moulding <chrism@...> wrote:

Hi Les,

The HF Active Loop antenna works the same as a conventional circular loop antenna so you are correct setting it up the same way as your previous loop.

On skywave HF signals you will usually not see a definite null as the incoming signal is usually refracted off several points in the ionosphere. The polarisation is constantly changing as well.

On local vertically polarised ground wave signals say a local medium wave station you should see a sharp null end on to the loop. To use your analogy the null is in the direction of travel of the bicycle wheel.

Regards,

Chris

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On 30/01/2019 15:43, leslie norton wrote:

At last got my CCW loop up outside on a pole, its just above the roof in the clear.
Its mounted on top of a yeasu rotator and set up for direction where my previous loop was.
The direction a normal loop receives is, simply put, when riding a bicycle the direction of the wheel is in the direction of the bicycle as is a loop antenna and signals.
My question is the CCW loop direction of signals the same ?
I hope it is as thats how i have set the rotator.
Thanks
Les