Untitled

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 21, 9 December 1927, Page 16

Static is always with us, that type of interference which sounds like a ton of coal being dumped. So far no real solution has been found for static elimination, although some methods now in use minimise its effects. ‘The loop is one of these devices, and for that reason loop sets will not pick up as much static as an antenna set. Ag much of the static originates in the tropics or north of New Zealand, the directional properties of the loop will aid in reducing this source of trouble, due to the fact that the loop ‘receives best in the plane in which it is point« ed and poorest from sections at right angles to the loop. From this we can see that Tf the loop is pointing east and west most of the static originating in the North is rejected and the Aus« tralian sfations come through witl great volume, while stations in the South and North are not received. A’ shifting of the plane of the loop will shift the direction of greatest response,