A small Magnetic Loop antenna
A copper gas pipe 20/30/40M Mag Loop
This antenna consists of:
- An so-239 connector
- Some copper sheating tabs
- 16.5ft. of 5/8" copper gas pipe
- 1ft. of 1/4" copper tubing
- A vacuum capacitor capable of tuning from arounf 0pf to just over 100pf
- A mast to support the antenna
- Several little fasteners and zip ties
to feed the antenna It’s made resonant via a vacuum capacitor which tunes the resonant frequency of the antenna. A nice feature of this antenna design is narrow bandwidth meaning that the antenna is effective only close to it’s resonant frequency.