{"id":38506,"date":"2019-07-15T07:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38506"},"modified":"2019-07-15T07:11:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:11:27","slug":"mla-30-loop-antenna-unboxing-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/mla-30-loop-antenna-unboxing-video\/","title":{"rendered":"MLA-30 loop antenna unboxing video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-7.52.26-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38328\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-7.52.26-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-7.52.26-AM.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-7.52.26-AM-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-7.52.26-AM-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-7.52.26-AM-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Paul, who notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This video is in Chinese, but at least we can see what&#8217;s inside the box:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mM09pT1YbjU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mM09pT1YbjU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sharing, Paul.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ordered the MLA-30, please let us know your thoughts about the construction and performance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul, who notes: This video is in Chinese, but at least we can see what&#8217;s inside the box: Click here to view on YouTube. Thanks for sharing, Paul. If you&#8217;ve ordered the MLA-30, please let us know your thoughts about the construction and performance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3607,3],"tags":[4357,3417,7893],"class_list":["post-38506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-news","tag-mag-loop-antennas","tag-magnetic-loop-antennas","tag-mla-30"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-a14","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39708,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/john-reviews-the-mla-30-mag-loop-antenna\/","url_meta":{"origin":38506,"position":0},"title":"John reviews the MLA-30 mag loop antenna","author":"Thomas","date":"September 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul, who notes that John\u2019s Tech Blog recently posted a review\/preview of the $47 MLA-30 loop antenna. 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