Funny how pictures CAN lie, like those stupid side mirrors on vehicles these days "objects appear closer than they are". Once upon a time I had SO much fun parking a van I could just scream!
"With all the syndicated shows on at night, BCB dx'ing is really not much fun anymore."
Good old cookie cutter radio and just to make things interesting the FCC dropped the full ID with callsign every 30 minutes requirement. Now we hear the same satellite driven robot crap out of Houston in every major market and they all use the same logos so there's no clue what station you're hearing.
"I loved the clear channel days."
You must mean 50KW flamethrowers with no other stations on the frequency, Clear Channel is anything BUT a clear channel. (;->)
Rant mode off AR/EX //
Back to receiving loops, they're great for everything I said they are. I remember inheriting a Hallicrafters SX-122 seen here in mint condition and some home brew stuff from an avid AM BCB DXer when he went to the big monitoring station in the sky. The most useful thing he made was a spider web loop. Looking at that schematic above I recognized it immediately as the same configuration only mine had bigger coils and more paralleled sections of 365mmF (no pF in those days) variable caps not shown here.
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