Its not just Electric firms that are a joke, widespread all trades, My water bill was high, so I asked for a Water Meter to be fitted..
Date arranged, Chap from Water firm arrived, showed him where the Pipe was, He then, took out his Mobile Phone to Photo it !
said "Oh, I'm Not a fitter, I have just come to survey it" What!! So I had to wait in again, a second day for the job to be finished
It now Works OK with it's Cellphone type link, so no RFI
Hi Stephen Lewis, re the frame /loops
That's the way to do it, keep the aerial away from the interference, find a good spot in the loft, using a battery radio
Thing is, the YouLoop types, are good for an SDR type receiver, where you want to cover lots of freqs. but they are Not Tuned
so usual idea, is to have a wideband amplifier, between the Loop and the radio, but watch out for Local stations overloading amp
Some SDR's use a Wellbrook loop, could not find the site, then the reason, Andrew Ikin of Wellbrook Communications has died
https://swling.com/blog/2024/01/andrew-ikin-of-wellbrook-communications-has-passed-away/
This is Map of some SDR's, just zoom in with mouse wheel... https://rx-tx.info/map-sdr-points
YouLoop type, uses coax as a Two turn loop, so called morbius wiring, where the Inner and outer braid, are wired in series at the top
Frames/loops are directional, having a Fig of 8 pattern, decide where the two nulls are going to be, in directions your not interested in
or Use the null to reduce a local station, that would overload an amplifier, if you use one
I used that idea years ago, when we needed a solid MW/AM receive signal 15 miles away, to feed our AM into a cable TV station audio
I put a Tuned frame aerial outside, away from building hash, and set the null on the adjacent AM Local Tx only 4 chans. away (27khz)
Have a good weekend, weather is Armageddon here in Northamptonshire, Noah had right idea
Rod Watts
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