{"id":51479,"date":"2022-01-10T07:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=51479"},"modified":"2022-01-10T07:05:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:05:56","slug":"frugal-radios-loop-on-ground-log-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/frugal-radios-loop-on-ground-log-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Radio&#8217;s Loop On Ground (LoG) Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LOG-Frugal-Radio-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51481\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LOG-Frugal-Radio-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LOG-Frugal-Radio-1.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LOG-Frugal-Radio-1-300x151.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LOG-Frugal-Radio-1-768x386.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/LOG-Frugal-Radio-1-624x314.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Rob, with Frugal Radio, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">On New Year&#8217;s Day I decided to spend some time make a Loop on the Ground HF antenna. It had been a project I had wanted to undertake for a while, after seeing the KK5JY web site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The LoG is supposed to work fairly well in noisy RF environments, and with my house being in suburbia,I thought it would be worth a shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I use some old speaker wire, RG6, some connectors I had lying around, and some random items from the back yard (old tyre, flower pot etc). It only took about 30 minutes to build with the stuff I already had lying around. I used a NooElec balun as my transformer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Despite the snow on the ground, it all worked.<br \/>\nI made a video showing the construction and initial testing which your readers may enjoy.<\/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\/dGfZk4ReR1w?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><strong>As you mention, Rob, the LoG has become a very popular antenna for folks living in an urban RFI jungle. Paired with a nice high dynamic range SDR, the results are quite impressive and the noise floor much lower than it would be with a traditional wire antenna or even a sky loop. I am curious how it compares with any other antennas as your home. Thanks for sharing!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Rob, with Frugal Radio, who writes: On New Year&#8217;s Day I decided to spend some time make a Loop on the Ground HF antenna. It had been a project I had wanted to undertake for a while, after seeing the KK5JY web site. The LoG is supposed to work [&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],"tags":[8623,9042,8074],"class_list":["post-51479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-frugal-radio","tag-log-antenna","tag-loop-on-ground-antenna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-doj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44073,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/rob-reviews-the-airspy-youloop-antenna\/","url_meta":{"origin":51479,"position":0},"title":"Rob reviews the AirSpy YouLoop antenna","author":"Thomas","date":"June 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Rob, who writes: Thank you for your informative blog. 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