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Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality.
ak
Amen to that! I hate woo-woo "science" and generally will not respond to those who pursue it.
In 2013 I got back into amateur radio by obtaining an Extra Class license (AC8NS). So, to see what had happened since my original Novice Class license expired in 1967, I attended the 2013 Dayton Hamvention and visited a vendor offering a Moebius Loop receiving antenna. It was am impressive little display, complete with handout references to an obscure Air Force researcher who had used a broadband Moebius loop probe antenna to explore the H-field generated by above-ground nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s.
The vendor, Pixel Technologies, had their Moebius loop antenna hooked up to an A/B display comparing it to a bottom-loaded vertical antenna using a spectrum analyzer for the A/B comparison. Quite impressive considering the Hara Arena venue is notorious for "eating" RF signals and is a very noisy RF environment, at least during the Hamvention with a few thousand ham rigs operating continuously. IIRC there was a short video presentation extolling the virtues of this "new" recently re-discovered (after years of Top Secret classification) technology. I was prepared to be impressed, but I've seen enough snake-oil salesmen to be wary. So I watched the demonstration, asked a few questions, and gathered their hand-out literature in my "goody bag" to take home and read later. No sale that day.
I went online and did some research on the Air Force project, which had indeed been de-classified, but didn't find anything more than a lot of theory about how to measure the EMP resulting from a ground-level nuclear detonation. No magic involved. The so-called Moebius loop was just an attempt to separate the E-field EMP from the H-field EMP, I don't recall whether this was successful or not. But if you are interested in this type of antenna,
start here.
The company promoting this antenna, Pixel Technologies, still exists but it was sold in 2014 and is now under "new management" selling satellite receiver antennas. No mention of the Moebius Loop antenna on their current website. I guess there is a limit to how much snake oil you can sell before the market is saturated. Despite the hype, it was a decent broadband receiving antenna with a built-in low-noise pre-amplifier, somewhat overpriced IMHO. I doubt many hams bought into the idea though. We use magnetic loop antennas, but they also need to be able to transmit power, not just receive radio signals. If a separate receiving antenna is used, it is usually necessary to disable it while transmitting, which this Moebius Loop antenna did with a "key" input from the ham's transmitter rig.
So much ado about nothing. As for scalar fields... Tesla was alleged to have discovered scalar EM radiation and stories abound about how he claimed to be able to direct or "beam" power anywhere in the world and use it as a weapon of mass destruction. Well, we are all still here, so either that was a bunch of hooie, or the technology has been successfully suppressed. Move on, folks! Nothing to see here!
Hop
Edit: I have no idea why the Moebius Loop antenna was dropped by Pixel Technologies. The majority of reviews on
eHam.net from radio amateurs as well as SWLs gave it excellent reviews. So the antenna does work for receiving. Not as well, apparently, as the UK
Wellbrook loop antenna which predates it by as least ten years, but "gud enuf" to perhaps justify its more than $400 cost.