2024-09-05, 06:10
(2024-09-03, 23:36)mwaters Wrote:(2024-09-03, 19:29)tickertapes Wrote: I was going to go down the ferrite antenna route but RS delivered them yesterday all broken into many pieces. Maybe my 2 x 5 turns of copper wire are doing okay?
tickertapes
Gerbold just posted that ferrite rod antennas are not as good as wire loops. Believe him!
That's why I decided to use wire loops, even though a support frame is needed, and they take up more space. Been using them for years.
I wouldn't be that strict. I made a statistics about stations using different types of antennas and calculated a ratio between number of strokes detected by stations with a certain antenna type devided by number stations using this antenna type. In this statistics loops apear a bit better than ferrite rods. https://forum.blitzortung.org/showthread...statistics
Another statistics shows that in far distance ferrite rods detect some signals more than loops. https://forum.blitzortung.org/showthread...ht=artwork