Cheapest Mag Loop Antenna on Banggood. But will it transmit ? 

Interesting experiment and you hit the nail on the head “fun” and “interesting”, that’s the essence of the hobby.

302 am n wam Fred in the Shed shows up Great video Mr Fred

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

Frid in the shed I learn lot from you about bying cb radios with AM FM ssb my friend

Frid in the shed your mag loop antenna is awesome my friend

Good vidoe as always Fred!

You had a little bit of success with that loop antenna, Fred. It has its uses for sure. You cannot beat that price. Nothing wagered, nothing gained. The receive is probably the best feature of ths setup

Fred anyone who has an issue with you using HF gear on 11 just needs to go away mate 👍🏻

If you look at the wonder wand loop antenna it's just an L match with a loop of wire and it works. It would be interesting to compare your loop with an ATU and a loop of wire.

Hi Fred. I'm only familiar with magnetic loop antennas that have the large loop, one capacitor, and a smaller coupling loop. The size and shape of the coupling loop, along with the distance from the big loop make a world of difference in how the antenna performs. The tiny capacitors that I saw when you opened the box up briefly are the kind you'd find in a small radio receiver and as you suspected, 20 watts would be tough to do without zapping out the capacitors and possible damaging your radio. I once bought a loop antenna from MFJ which operated the same way yours does (2 capacitors and just some wire to form a loop) and never got any satisfying results from it. The capacitors were much larger, thus allowing more input power, but if I couldn't hear much, I'm not sure what good that did. I went for the conventional magnetic loop and have had wonderful results. Because a lot of the noise the usual antenna picks up is man-made electrical noise, it's not picked up by the mag loop due to the fact it's only using the magnetic waves. It's also directional and the one you were using should be directional as well. Perhaps you didn't have the loop pointed towards the station that was listening for you. Going back to the mag loop I'm using, it's currently indoors and I typically run 5-15 watts (SSB) to it, with very good results. Locally, I get between 5-10 miles (depending on how noisy the band conditions are) and usually when I ask them for a signal report, I get the same S-unit from them as I received from their station). I work skip from the antenna indoors as well, which is mounted on a photo tripod and about 1 meter from the floor with a 1.5:1 SWR reading. At some point I'll put a vertical antenna outside the house, but may use the mag loop as a receive antenna due to its ability to achieve a lower noise floor. I'm actually doing something like that now. I bought one of those MLA-30 loop antennas off Amazon when it was on sale last year for about $30. There's no tuning involved, just a small box that that requires 5v to power an amplifier inside. It saves a LOT of time (and capacitor knob tuning) when trying to figure out whether a band is active or not. I won't use the word "enjoyed", but I certainly felt your misery, as it was much like what I experienced from the MFJ unit. But now I'll use that word, and say that I always "enjoy" your videos... 👍

Great test, thanks. Does it sound convincing as a balcony HF antenna since I can't put a real one on the roof of my condo? Probably not. I'm jealous of the traffic you enjoy on the CB band over there. It's so bloody dead here in France, and I live in a big, big city.

An RF loop in the coax on the antenna side your noise seems atmospheric( more noise the higher up you went) might help with the noise and bring the noise floor down but signals up.

didnt know u had an 18 foot base station mate looking to set up some of that as well

I worked you on a mag loop Fred many times :) it was a baby loop at 3.4m :)

EH, Holding onto former interest in CB, just like my worm farming hobby.. EH!. My SWR was too high on test. I did my own soldering. Tried to be careful with braiding and such +, -. It's portable you can put it in the trunk. Anyway, it's still there Solocon 2000, OHIO, USA. "The chair is against the wall. " Thanks 4 video.

i read where in that setup it receives and transmits horizontal so how would it work try it 90 deg tilted to the side and the antenna uses the outer shell of the coax as receive and transmit

American here. I can't believe what they are charging for those antenna kits. There must be a black market in the UK for variable caps. Or the Khanman doesn't want you to listen to anything but the BBC.......😮

Yeah, it is fun. Buy something like that put it on boat and drift, catch some cross talk. Thanks again.

Why not tune for maximum noise on receive !, makes tuning easier.

Hi Fred love the vids! I was told (and some research) that Mag Loops are directional (for the most part). Did you take that into account? If not might be worth just looking on the map and have it facing towards Dan (as in the flat side of the loop facing him not the edge. If you knew that I apologise. 73s

with fm you want line of sight and nothing blocking your signal! the higher the better! and if you wanna cut down on noise place around 6 inches of ferrite chokes at each end of the coax.

Setting the loop aside, I wonder if anyone in the CB radio community is using end feds as we do in amateur radio, especially the 9:1 with a non-resonant length might by an absolute killer antenna, at that 27 mhz dimension you could put it anywhere. All the Best! 73 DE W8LV BILL

haha fred you sound just like me just go for it. then read the instructions when its not working 😂 love the videos fella. do you guys have a particular time and frequency u use. love to try and make contact m8 i was round your way the other day couldn't help myself but look out for antennas you could call that a new hobby mast spotting if you will 👍👍

you could use a nano vna or analyzer to check it

Hi fred I tried Charlie tango to get a call sign but never heard back do you know of any other place to try having a bit of an issue with background noise have sent off for an in line inhibitor have you any other tips have watched all your blogs numerous times and have been a great help keep up the good work 😊

Hi Fred got one of these, HFDY 50K-500MHz Wideband Active Small Magnetic Loop Antenna LZ1AQ Amplifier HF AM FM VHF UHF SDR Receiver Radio Tescun Malahitea from Bangood, I was wondering if it makes any difference to reception when different voltages are applied, it ranges from 5-12v

Nice videos witch is better coil antenna or a straight antenna (silver rod )🤔

cb is longer range on marine band as I'm told am at night and shortwave is longer range then that as well

Does that loop have directionality? Did you try swiveling it at all during tx and rx?

Hi just getting back into cb radio after a 30 year break, have you ever tried to use a redundant tv aerial ? would one of those stuck on a chimney work lol

hey nice video :) i think the quansheng uv k5 handhelds are fun for you 2,it do 50mhz till 600mhz and you can modify the filmware so you can listen 2 18mhz till 1300mhz i think for you its fun to play with it :) so you can also listen on 11 meters with it :)

ham radio is a legit hoby for dxing mate

Just wondering if this antenna might be directional, may be worth rotating to see if there’s any improvement.

are the SIRIO ASTROPLANE and STAR DUSTER "M-400 popular in Brittan ?

I found it on Amazon for $85.99 US 😊

lol i see u fliping us off thanks for showing how to set this up

Hi Fred, not sure if you have been told but that is not a mag loop as such its a poor copy of what was called the army loop and it was never that good to start with, build yourself a real mag loop even as easy as using a ally bicycle wheel rim and you will see a difference.

Its a directional antenna you need to point it at them

I bought the cs-47, bloody thing isn't tuned for 27megz

it covers CB radio because that's all you're interested in.. are you an M6 as well..??

Reupload ?

u want to keep swr as low as possible

oooh ohh just a thought.. why don't you MAKE ONE..!! and then you can illegally use your HF radio on it on CB radio..

Its not a magnetic loop

Can you be more careful about where you place the camera! It would be best to move it forward about 3ft as the current position means you are constantly covering the lens with your hand and fingers. It is similar to how old people take photos, they cover the lens with part of their hand or finger and forget we can't see through them. Any solid object nearer to the lens will block what you are trying to film. There are lots of beginner videos for youtube people so they can make good videos and it explains all of this and other common mistakes, plus how to check before posting in order to correct the videos. The other common mistake people make when filming is to keep pointing at what they are filming and waving their hands about in front of it. We know what you are filming as that is what you are showing us! There is a channel that performs hoaxes quite often and they do things to see who really watches them and how fast something they do will spread to other videos. One was exactly this - they deliberately covered up the camera with hands and fingers and waited to see who copied them. They also did one in which they deliberately left a camera on auto focus and kept moving it to slow the focus change, suddenly everyone started copying this too and they had a good laugh about it. There is some league table about how long it takes people to copy and how many things they copy. there was a car seller in Wales, UK, that was found copying saabkyle04 word for word for example! People expect more from youtube videos now, so covering lenses with fingers and waving hands to block the camera is poor.

Don't put your fingers in front of the camera to block the lens, don't keep waving your hands and fingers about in front of the camera lens to block it, don't keep tapping on things and blocking the camera lens with your finger and hand, check your videos before posting and it will allow you to correct the continual errors you are making that make the video appear quite childish in terms of presentation. At least you saved people from buying what you have described as a useless product!

Anything from Bangood is utter rubbish, like their customer service. Avoid like the plague.