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petehoovie · 10-19-2020, 08:12 PM

An antenna loading coil is an inductor placed in series with an antenna element in order to lower the antenna’s resonant frequency.

I've never seen an external one used for medium wave band AM radio though -530 kHz to 1700 kHz ....

10-19-2020, 08:12 PM	#16
petehoovie Senior Member Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 8,137	Re: Does Anyone Know What This Is? An antenna loading coil is an inductor placed in series with an antenna element in order to lower the antenna’s resonant frequency. I've never seen an external one used for medium wave band AM radio though -530 kHz to 1700 kHz .... __________________ The only thing nice about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.... *"Silver rings, your butt! Them's washers!"* "We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NReUd2_0u0 Last edited by petehoovie; 10-19-2020 at 08:37 PM.