Wellbrook Magnetic Aerial

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In a similar vein I've ordered up one of these to do some testing on SW and MW.

http://www.kaitousa.com/KA33.htm

It seems to have some good reviews on the net.

I'm still having fun with the home brew aerial but it doesn't help with SW reception.

Cheers, John

Yes that design as published won't work too well on shortwave, there's not enough tuning range, if you were to reduce the inductance of the tuning coil to cover the shortwave band(s) you would be reducing the amount of wire available to pick up the signal.
Also the most commonly available ferrite rods don't generally work that well at those higher frequencies so far as I am aware, apart from the usual random/long wire, dipole/doublet the only decent alternative is an air cored magnetic loop either tuned or untuned.

Lawrence.