I have to test that again, I had no other antennas to compare with. See my reply to Janne and you see why. The antenna was placed on the window frame, rotating would result in the antenne falling to the floor I did made some PSK31 contacts but only with the stronger stations.

the article is rather old, but was still on my old site. At the time I wrote the article I had no antenna at all. I built the loop to see if it was something I could use. The only receiver I had was my old Kenwood R1000. I was happy enough to hear something

About 1,5 year ago I started building a loop from coax cable (don’t know the size, but it was about 4 cm in diameter) that I had found near the road. It was a leftover from a contruction site, but still a good 9m long. My goal was to make a horizontal loop. But the coax was way to heavy. I started over with a square loop in Al made from DIY parts. The side was now 3m. But I never finished it. All the parts are at my parents garage.

I will proceed with the experiments later. I can get a vacuum cap from a friend of me. But I moved house. We sold our appartment (to my parents in law) en bought a house. All my activities stopped earlier this year (feb 2009) and we moved in june. Now is the time that everything is falling in place and I hope to gain more time for the hobby. No antenna at all. It’s difficult sometime to be silent

I’m interested to know about your experiences on F/S performance. Can you blend out any disturbing signals from unwanted directions to clear up the wanted signal?
73 Mark, PA5MW

Nice to see that you are experimenting with magloop again. We also did some testing
last saturday and compared an groudn mounted GP and magloop on 20 meters.

The results were quite promising and “real report” A/B test with few stations gave similar
results from both antennas. I built quite unigue capacitor for this magloop and I might
even put the details to my website after I’ve finnished the remote cotrolleing mechanism.

Have you ever tried to do any comparisons? Using thicker materials, bigger loop, soldered connections and
good capacitor might give you better results.

73 de Janne, OH1SDR (ex. OH1GTF)