Valve radio aerials in India (Techniek Overig)

door jsbhavsar , Mumbai, India, 21.10.2016, 11:49 (2954 dagen geleden) @ John Hupse †

Very nice tuned loop. I feel Belgium were more polished listeners and preferred tuned loops than slinkys and springs?

Tuned AM loop is unheard in India, atleast when I started my investigation and interest in valve radios. In India, mostly the copper net aerial was prominent, many shops sold it on a regular basis.

Some radio listeners simply kept their radio aerial as "end-fed" leaving the other end high up on terrace.

And one my relatives in interior India village, their valve radio aerial was a end-fed, but the other end was not on terrace but a storage water tank near a well. (Most Indian villages still have a small well for water needs and a cement storage tank adjoining to the well. I found the aerial wire other end inside the water).

My Dad's Philips 15RB487 radio had something called a silver foild "internal SW antenna" inside the bakelite radio.
There were two silver foils; one A4 size foil pasted at the bottom of the radio inside which was called as "heat sink" and the other square silver foil was pasted in cabinet on top inside as "internal SW antenna". It was not helpful.