On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:32:41 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Well you might have transcribed it here...

I think the worst case I saw was a Pioneer receiver which kept calling a
ferrite rod am aerial a Loopstick,
and there was also a thing called a complete loading max protector. I
eventually found this amounted to an over current circuit and a relay.


The second description is rather obtuse but the first, "Loopstick
(antenna)" to give it its full name, is pure americana. It's what the
Yanks call a "Ferrite Rod Antenna".

As per usual with yank expressions, sloppy thinking is the key to a
lot of such americanisms such as Gas(olene) and 9/11 for the month/day
date format which gifts a key date to terrorists planning major
outrages on american soil due to the american media's propensity to
describe the date as "911" (nine-eleven) thus tying it irrevocably to
the yank emergency services telephone number (911) as a perpetual
reminder in the yank public's mind every time they need to call upon
such services.

In this case, the origin is the pre-ferrite rod directional antenna
made from a loop of wire wrapped around a wooden frame (a large open
area air cored tuning coil which was, naturely, referred to as a "Loop
Antenna"[1] by all english speaking cultures.

When the more compact version of the Loop Antenna was made possible
by use of a ferrite rod core in the 60s, the yanks distinguished this
compact loop antenna from the earlier air cored designs by thinking of
the ferrite as a stick of ferrite which, in their passion for
misleadingly brief names (eg gas for gasolene), was used to create the
"Loopstick antenna" name.

We in the UK went for the more descriptive name, "Ferrite Rod
antenna" (or, more briefly, "Ferrite Rod"). Possibly more due to the
good fortune of using "Petroleum" instead of "Gasolene" our
abbreviation for petroleum became "petrol" rather than the sillier
sounding "pet". It seems we weren't so lacksadaisical with our
abbreviations as to shorten this one down to a single syllable word.

[1] UK use tends to split between 'antenna' and 'aerial', either word
can be (and is) used, depending on preference (or spelling ability :-)
--
J B Good