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jackson_r:
I would say all points "east."  I'd prefer to attenuate to the west as the feds have an outpost there.   ;)  It's an interesting question that I was going to ask as part of this tangent we've taken on mag loops.  From what I understand, mag loop antennas have a specific area of attenuation out of the axis.  So if I mounted a mag loop horizontally, RF is going to go out in an omnidirectional pattern with attenuation directly beneath and above the axis.  Mounted vertically (and lets say in an east/west orientation), the pattern would be straight up and north/south with attenuation to the west and east.  Orient it north/south and the pattern would be straight up and west/east, with attenuation to the north and south.  Sorry, that all looks like rambling upon reading it again, but I'm just struggling to wrap my pea brain around the directional characteristics of a mag loop antenna. 

Stretchyman:
Yes the pattern seems the opposite of what You think!

Would be a good antenna for sure, quite a bit of effort.

As your already west I can't work out where the Feds are, on a boat or in Hawaii!

jackson_r:
The little buggers are everywhere, aren't they?  I'm actually about 50 miles inland from the coast and I've got a big metro city due west of me where they have an office.  Not to mention that I've got a couple of Ham towers due west of me in the neighborhood (different HOA, hence the reason they can have a visible antenna and I can't).  I'd rather stay out of their line of "sight" if possible.  I was thinking of orienting a mag loop north/south, with a big piece of plywood wrapped on one side with aluminum foil just a couple of feet to the west of the it.  From what I've read, this should attenuate the signal quite a bit to the west, or at the very least throw people from the west "off" about where the signal is coming from.  I may never build one, but I like antenna theory.   :D

Antennae:
You could camouflage the loop by painting it white and putting fake vines and flowers on it like its a garden arch. And put a pretty box over the capacitor and paint some silly flower design on it. 
Or you could also get some plastic lattice and fill in the loop with it. And put vines and large fake butterflies on it.

Here's some info from the web that I found after a month of obsessing over the mag loop things (its in my post down the page):
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23877.0.html

John Poet:
Jackson,
Trying to attenuate your signal toward an FCC field office probably isn't going to help you.  In fact, they don't actually do their radio monitoring from there.

Read this:
http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3388

Since they monitor from multiple points around the country, it doesn't matter that much which way HF transmissions are "pointed"-- some of them will be able to pick it up.

The biggest issue is to try to avoid being reported by anyone to the FCC-- it's fielding complaints where they spend most of their enforcement energies.  They don't have the resources to do much else.

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