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Although I've little experience of ferrite rods on LF receive I did wind my 6=
00uH 500kHz ATU loading coil for my 5w transverter on one.  With just a 5m t=
op loaded vertical it worked well without saturation problems when  sitting o=
n the bedroom table. At QRP it is less lossy as less wire is needed.=20

People have successfully engineered (single turn I think) ferrite rods as TX=
 antennas for 10MHz QRPp WSPR. Somewhere I have some information on this. As=
 long as saturation is avoided there is some mileage for HF TX applications i=
n very compact QRP stations.=20

Worth some experiments on LF receive Stefan.=20

73s
Roger G3XBM

Via my iPod Touch 4g 2.4GHz handheld.=20=