{"id":52590,"date":"2022-04-25T07:28:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52590"},"modified":"2022-04-25T07:28:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:28:30","slug":"video-frans-compares-the-grahn-gs5-se-vlf2-with-a-large-loop-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/video-frans-compares-the-grahn-gs5-se-vlf2-with-a-large-loop-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Frans compares the GRAHN GS5 SE &#8211; VLF2 with a large loop antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GS5-SE.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52591\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GS5-SE.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GS5-SE.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GS5-SE-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GS5-SE-624x468.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to\u00a0<em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Frans Goddijn, who shares the following note and video <a href=\"https:\/\/kostverlorenvaart.blogspot.com\/2022\/04\/grahn-vlf2-alexanderson-antenna-module.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">originally posted on his blog<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mr Grahn of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grahn-spezialantennen.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.grahn-spezialantennen.de\/<\/a> had to stop working for a couple of months (medical reasons) but now he is back and I was able to get one of his highly sensitive Very Low Frequency modules to fit on my Grahn GS5-SE antenna tuner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As before, the delicate device (&#8220;treat like glassware, do not throw&#8221;) was extremely well packed for its safe and intact arrival.<\/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\/BmqvwuFwq9I?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\/BmqvwuFwq9I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kostverlorenvaart.blogspot.com\/2022\/04\/grahn-vlf2-alexanderson-antenna-module.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view Frans&#8217; post which includes additional photos.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post contributor, Frans Goddijn, who shares the following note and video originally posted on his blog: Mr Grahn of https:\/\/www.grahn-spezialantennen.de\/ had to stop working for a couple of months (medical reasons) but now he is back and I was able to get one of his highly sensitive Very Low Frequency modules to [&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":[3607,2436,3,3485],"tags":[1643,9762,9780,9781,4093],"class_list":["post-52590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-longwave","category-news","category-vlf","tag-antennas","tag-frans-goddijn","tag-grahn-gs5-se","tag-grahn-very-low-frequency","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dGe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52702,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/frans-compares-the-bh5hde-qrp-grahn-se3-and-his-home-made-loop-antenna\/","url_meta":{"origin":52590,"position":0},"title":"Frans compares the BH5HDE QRP, GRAHN SE3, and his home made loop antenna","author":"Thomas","date":"May 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post contributor, Frans Goddijn, who shares the following article and video originally posted on his blog: I got the little BH5HDE QRP portable QRP loop, assembled it and could not wait to try it out even though it was during that day and signals were sparse and\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\/2022\/05\/CQHAM-BH5HDE-Loop-scaled-e1652265577229.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CQHAM-BH5HDE-Loop-scaled-e1652265577229.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CQHAM-BH5HDE-Loop-scaled-e1652265577229.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CQHAM-BH5HDE-Loop-scaled-e1652265577229.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CQHAM-BH5HDE-Loop-scaled-e1652265577229.webp?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":52420,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/frans-experiments-with-the-mfj-1026-noise-canceler\/","url_meta":{"origin":52590,"position":1},"title":"Frans experiments with the MFJ-1026 Noise Canceling Signal Enhancer","author":"Thomas","date":"April 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Frans Goddijn, who writes: \"Last week I purchased the MFJ-1026 \u2018noise canceling signal enhancer\u2019 and I posted two blogs with video about it. 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