long wire, short wave antenna

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Originally Posted by toxcrusadr

This looks like a really cool thing, but I don't quite understand how the loop works. It seems you run a multi conductor cable around the room's perimeter and use the switch to choose which conductor to use, but wouldn't they all be the same length? What am I missing here?

Note that the conductor terminals are offset resulting in differing legnths.