I have a simple dipole up about 25 ft. with about 75 feet per leg. I plan to use 300 ohm twinlead (hopefully not the Chinese stuff I saw in RS) and conn. a ferrite loopstick across the twinlead inside shop. I think a secondary (may have one already) of lower imped. would be ok to conn to radios on bench.
I would welcome any comments pro or con on this project.
I do plan to have a lightning arrestor of some type on lead in.

Harold

I don't think you really need a loopstick antenna on the feed wire.

I use a 75' antenna ( in an "V" shape to make it an omnidirectional) and earth ground to a patch panel in my shop.

I can then come off the binding posts for the connections to the radio.

For radios with a loop on the back I found hooking a coil of wire to make an inductive coupling works just great.

Agree. Just use the antenna lead in and ground for your connections. Loopstick not needed.

Chuck

Of course that "V" must be in the horizontal plane to make it more omnidirectional. A "V" in the vertical plane does nothing for that.

If this is for the AM band then don't even bother with the dipole. At 150 feet it's no where reasonant for the AM band. It will work but why go through al the trouble? If you are using it to test radios, any lenght of wire strung outdoors is fine.

Use the loopstick. It will increase signal strength especially on low power stations but the main advantage is it will reduce interference from shop tools, chargers, and lighting.

Sorry, I am mystified.

Reducing interference would require reducing signal strength, unless you have found a way to tune the loopstick to the offending interference.

In my opinion, the loopstick is not needed.

Rich

The loopstick Q drops off dramatically above and below the band it is designed for.
It will not reduce actual BCB noise but will reduce everything else. They are especially good in reducing fluorescent interference.