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When I was looking for an inexpensive medium wave loop antenna, remember that I’m leaving near to a major railways station and that noise is a concern to me, loop could only help, I found some adverts about this antenna also sold under GRUNDIG AN-200 name. I decide to buy one to try and use if good enough. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find any technical informations but frequency range being in the medium wave. So to help future bidders as the best way to get one is on the bay, I dismantle mine and make some mesurements.
The dia of the loop being 270 mms and having 26 turns of 0.8 mm wire closed spaced, the value of the loop must be around 300 uH at 1 MHz, check it by yourself here. I measured 362.2 uH real world.
PSE NOTE THAT THE 3.3mH FIXED INDUCTANCE SEEN ON THE PICTURES DOESN’T BELONG TO THE ORIGINAL AN-200. I PUT THIS COMPONENT TO DETUNE ONE OF MY AN-200 TO THE LONG WAVE BAND..
 There is a 2 turns inductive coupling loop inside the main loop which is linked to the jack that can be used if your radio receiver permit it otherwise you will use the classic inductive coupling putting the AN-200 very close to your receiver. It works perfectly for ALL radios having ferrite rod inside.
The air variable capacitor as a range from 7.74 pf to 268 pf (mine as bought). This range is adjustable a bit on the capacitor itself, so if you find that yours is off the shelf, you can detune a bit the range. I didn’t do it as I didn’t need it.
Now using the freeware LCfreqs that you can find under the usefull tools in my LX2SM software page we can easily compute the value of the real range of your AN-200 if needed. Mine tune from 0.5 MHz to 2.34 MHZ, where it should be thus.
I will recommand this antenna without any doubt. A solid base to add a preamp using a MAR8.
Giving a 5/5
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