{"id":49586,"date":"2021-07-11T06:49:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T10:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49586"},"modified":"2021-07-11T06:49:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T10:49:20","slug":"mike-harwood-explores-active-magnetic-loop-antennas-with-sdrplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/mike-harwood-explores-active-magnetic-loop-antennas-with-sdrplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Harwood explores active magnetic loop antennas with SDRplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SDRplay-RSPduo-Antenna-Ports-Angle-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32060\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SDRplay-RSPduo-Antenna-Ports-Angle-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1048\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SDRplay-RSPduo-Antenna-Ports-Angle-2.jpg 1048w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SDRplay-RSPduo-Antenna-Ports-Angle-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SDRplay-RSPduo-Antenna-Ports-Angle-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SDRplay-RSPduo-Antenna-Ports-Angle-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SDRplay-RSPduo-Antenna-Ports-Angle-2-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1048px) 100vw, 1048px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to Jon Hudson with SDRplay who shares the following announcement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Introducing a new series of videos comparing the performance of wideband active loop amplifier\/antennas for HF frequencies and below. In this introductory video, Mike Harwood shows how an RSPduo enables a real-time comparison of two antennas &#8211; in this demo, he uses a Wellbrook 1530AN and one of his own compact loop creations. You can see that he has lined up several other active loop antennas\/amplifiers to try in future videos, including the Bonito Megaloop FX, the LZ1AQ amp and the Cross Country Wireless amp.<\/p>\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\/yuG47e8hHTQ?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>SDPlay will endorse antennas which work well and formally recommend them on its website antenna suggestions page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdrplay.com\/antennasuggestions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sdrplay.com\/antennasuggestions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of many videos from SDRplay &#8211; makers of the RSP family of SDR radios. See the full list of SDRplay videos and applications documents on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdrplay.com\/apps-catalogue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sdrplay.com\/apps-catalogue\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The RSP family of SDRs from SDRplay cover 1kHz to 2 GHz with no gaps and give up to 10MHz spectrum visibility.<\/p>\n<p>SDRplay is a UK company. The RSP SDR receivers are made in the UK and can be purchased for worldwide delivery directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdrplay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sdrplay.com\/<\/a> (click on purchase and select your country to view shipping costs) or you can buy from any of our worldwide resellers listed here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdrplay.com\/distributors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sdrplay.com\/distributors\/<\/a> Many of the resellers offer local free shipping and\/or local language technical support.<\/p>\n<p>The SDRplay YouTube Channel is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SDRplayRSP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SDRplayRSP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Jon Hudson with SDRplay who shares the following announcement: Introducing a new series of videos comparing the performance of wideband active loop amplifier\/antennas for HF frequencies and below. In this introductory video, Mike Harwood shows how an RSPduo enables a real-time comparison of two antennas &#8211; in this demo, he uses a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3607,3,43,158],"tags":[4698,4357,3417,9361,3711],"class_list":["post-49586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","tag-jon-hudson","tag-mag-loop-antennas","tag-magnetic-loop-antennas","tag-mike-harwood","tag-sdrplay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cTM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50092,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/mike-compares-four-active-mag-loop-antennas\/","url_meta":{"origin":49586,"position":0},"title":"Mike compares four active mag loop antennas","author":"Thomas","date":"August 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Jon Hudson who shared the following on the SDRplay Facebook page: In this new video, Mike Harwood compares 4 different active mag loop antenna at various frequencies up to 52MHz using two SDRplay RSPduos which allowed simultaneous spectrum snapshots of the 4 loops in action with real\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antennas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antennas","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/antennas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MFJ-Mag-Loop-Antenna.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MFJ-Mag-Loop-Antenna.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MFJ-Mag-Loop-Antenna.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MFJ-Mag-Loop-Antenna.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17926,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/guest-post-building-a-magnetic-loop-antenna-broadband-amplifier-for-your-sdr\/","url_meta":{"origin":49586,"position":1},"title":"Guest Post: Building a magnetic loop antenna &#038; broadband amplifier for your SDR","author":"Thomas","date":"March 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Dave Gahimer (K9ZCE) for the following guest post: Small Magnetic Loop Antenna with Broadband Amplifier for SDR Reception by Dave Gahimer (K9ZCE) Those with limited space, or antenna restrictions, might find a small 1 meter loop antenna a solution. 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Brilliant video, Thomas! I love the fact you included a demonstration with your SDRplay RSP1A as well. 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For some time, I have been thinking about making a loop antenna for AM DXing. It was my lucky day. 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