{"id":46796,"date":"2026-04-02T16:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=46796"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:00:51","slug":"rsgb-emc-committee-releases-new-leaflet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2026\/04\/02\/rsgb-emc-committee-releases-new-leaflet\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB EMC Committee releases new leaflet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/committees\/electromagnetic-compatibility-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB EMC Committee<\/strong><\/a> has released a new leaflet explaining how to build a portable loop antenna to help radio amateurs find sources of EMF interference.<\/p>\n<p>Pair it with a portable receiver, and you can walk around an area, watching for changes in signal strength to pinpoint where interference is coming from.<\/p>\n<p>The antenna itself is easy to make from a short length of coaxial cable formed into a loop and a handful of coax connectors.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its small size, the antenna has directional properties making it useful for locating the sources of interference.<\/p>\n<p>This is Leaflet 19 in the series of leaflets produced by the Committee and is called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/03\/EMC-Leaflet-19-Simple-loop-antenna-v1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A simple loop antenna for use in identifying sources of interference<\/strong><\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>You can download it and all the other EMC leaflets in the series, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/technical\/emc\/emc-publications-and-leaflets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB EMC Committee has released a new leaflet explaining how to build a portable loop antenna to help radio amateurs find sources of EMF interference. Pair it with a portable receiver, and you can walk around an area, watching for changes in signal strength to pinpoint where interference is coming from. The antenna itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46833,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46796\/revisions\/46833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}