Good effort Fred.. Even the loops costing £ hundreds are tricky and over sensitive to tuning so credit to you for working out those capacitor adjustments and achieving such a good SWR result .. It'll be interesting to see how you get on with it in use. You are absolutely correct in estimating the power that those small capacitors will handle using FM or AM.. 5 watts would be a very generous figure, although you could double that using SSB.

Hi Fred in the shed. This is George normally in the Garage. I have made my own loop antenna. Thinking of buying a commercialy made one. But was hoping a company would send me one for a product review but no joy. Enjoying your videos. George

Well, this is some kind of funny. When I opened up my antenna the same screw in the upper left corner cracked, too. This is a stunning good antenna. I used it on 12m and worked Japan, Indonesia and USA with 10W in FT8. The tuning is a bit tricky but getting easier over time. Nice video. Thanks and greetings from Germany ... Holger

Fred you're pretty awesome. I enjoy your videos. I live in Oregon. In the USA

The Q, or the bandwidth of a mag look is inherently very narrow by nature. You've done really well to get this to work on 11 meters.👍🏻📡

Good job using nano-vna.

Frid in the shed your Magnetic loop antenna 📡 on CB radio is awesome my friend 😅😅😅

Well done for persevering Fred and getting this to tune on 27MHz, I have this exact loop antenna which I reviewed on my channel some time ago, I bought mine off AliExpress rather than Banggood so I guess all the usual Chinese outlets have them listed, like yours mine did not come with instructions, also like yourself I managed to crack the plastic screws in the tuning box when undoing them to look inside as they are indeed tight, hope you can get a contact using it, best of luck and I look forward to the next video on this antenna

Frid in the shed my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb iam thinking about getting my ham license

Frid in the shed I learn lot from you about cbs radios antenna for cb radios my friend 😅😅😅

Great Doggo!!!!

Frid in the shed you did a good job adjusting the magnetci loop antenna on CB radio thats is awesome my friend 😅😅

My club manufactures the W2LI loop we sell. We found that the tunning capacitors have to be turned very slowly. Seems like you figured out. Great video. Thanks. Fred. Art- K2ADC

great video been looking at a loop antenna for some time now very interesting

Frid in the shed your utube videos are awesome my friend 😅😅😅

Good to see you’re getting somewhere with the Magloop Fred,those NanoVNA’s are a God send for the money too.I would recommend your viewers use a large Philips head screwdriver to pop it open as I did similar a while back on a none related radio project with a similar enclosure.Thanks for the video…73’s

Frid in the shed iam going to san Diego CALIFORNIA in October 2023 19-23 for five days with my cousin and his wife we are flying there my friend 😅😅

Metalwork around the aerial isn't good. I've never put one on an aluminium tripod. as it could affect tuning, I've had them on the shack floor or a wooden pole.. Anyway, well done Fred for sussing out how to get it to tune upwards in frequency. G4GHB.

Fantastic. I am very happy with your sucess. 7351.

Thats a nice setup for static mobile operation - get up a hill somewhere nice. I use a magloop for HF and its amazing how well it performs on very low power. Main thing is you have a capbility you previously didnt and your happy with it as well, good work !

Fred I’m very i impressed lot of work but yea I get it, thanks for letting us see you do this, bloody brilliant work can’t wait to see you get a contact ,see you soon CT 48-70 Alan.👍

Well you cant deny.you get your £70:00 pound value when you get these antennas of this company.i think the only things worth the money there are the bnc and pl259 plugs.apart from that i wouldn't even put a Maxcom 30e radio into it.😊😊😊

I believe that the Mag Loop antenna is horizontally polarized. Since most stations on 11 meters FM transmit vertically, you must expect a weaker signal with the Mag Loop antenna than if both stations transmit horizontally. In any case, it will be interesting if you get the antenna working and get some contacts. The antenna is not very big, so I think you could easily build it twice as big without it taking up a lot of space, on the other hand I would expect it to be more efficient.

the bauln box will keep RF coming back on your coax back to the shack. Cause without it your other end of the loop turns into your coax.

Hi Fred, fantastic info as always, great video. After seeing the loop antenna videos, I'm interested in getting one, and checked out the link in the video. I will also need to get a VNA nanno. Could you please post me the model number or a link for one ? I did a search, but it got a little confusing as there are many similar types at various prices and I just want one to do basic stuff. I'm very unfamiliar with these types of meeters. Many thanks and thank you for the fantastic video's you do. Scoob 👍😸

have you tried a terminated inverted u antenna. mine works great from 1.8 MHz - 30 MHz i get well under 1.5 swr. i manly use it for listening to shortwave but i do chat on cb on ssb and antenna does not need any tuning

Do you think the narrow band width and the lower swr outweighs the low efficiency of the antenna running only 4-5w? Guess we are going to have to wait 😅

would you not try the 9900 with it turned down to 5w and see if you get any skip contacts with loop??

put a 10 turn knob on the caps.

вы не видите, что эта антенна не верно собрана? как соединено все. как подсоединены экран и центральная жила кабеля. автор бы сделал схему подключения.

What about a 16:1 UNUN driving a EFLW.

Can you open the second mini box?

You want 26.695-27.99125Mhz

Where is the inductor loop ?

seems like alot of faff for no gain.... may be good for a prison cell station.... no room snd plenty of time 😂😂😂😂

melted wires and split plastic wire wrap.

You need to move the camera forward by 3ft and this will help with the problem you have of constantly blocking the camera with your hands and fingers. I am not sure why you don't notice this when you edit the videos and make NO effort to correct it. We can't see through your hands and I have no idea what it is you are trying to achieve by ruining the quality of your own videos this way. Watch the video again and explain why you keep covering the camera lens with your fingers, your hand and then wave your hands about across the lens and start tapping on things. People expect a much better quality and this type of production make the videos quite childish, it is what a child might do and not understand that they were blocking what was being filmed. There are lots of tutorial videos you can use to learn about video production. I notice you have only recently started doing this, other videos you never used to do it, so what has changed and caused you to think putting your hands and fingers over the lens to block what you film or to tap on things is a good idea? I'm curious as to which youtuber you started copying this from as I know one channel started doing it for a laugh to track how many watched them and copied what they did. They have a league table with the results!

Way too much talking just do it

I love your finger snap music on intro! Shit Fred, the Aliens are going to go right to your- (thanks google) Gaff. Glad you have a big back yard! 5 watts that's not bad. You can pack it in car tripod! Meep, Meep, we come in peace! Thanks Fred, good as you go! _

Hey Fred in the shed I am happy you are happy with your mag loop antenna but this antenna is NOT an antenna one would buy set it up and use on a CB radio. So i am good for a few channels but if i want to use channel 1 and then up to 20 i have to retune? Why FRED why go buy a Sirio GAIN MASTER and make a video about it that it needs no tuning i would like the video but this Banggood antenna? NO it is a failed experiment even if you aree happy!