RE: LF: Loop Conundrum

["Chris Trayner" <C.Trayner@leeds.ac.uk>]

> Better yet, take a soccer ball and start winding wire around it until 
you have completed a 90 degree arc on both sides. What's the resulting 
pattern?

I'd guess the sum of all the individual loops, which should be in their
average direction, i.e. with the flux coming out of the middles of the
remaining quarters not covered with wire. 
So I'd guess that you'd have the same radiation pattern as a similar
coil wound all in one plane.

73,
Chris G4OKW