The Soo

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.