{"id":63846,"date":"2025-09-03T07:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63846"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:21:50","slug":"coupling-three-homebew-antennas-for-40-meter-dx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/coupling-three-homebew-antennas-for-40-meter-dx\/","title":{"rendered":"Coupling Three Homebew Antennas for 40-Meter DX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Giuseppe-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63848 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Giuseppe-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Giuseppe-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Giuseppe-1-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Giuseppe-1-1024x573.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Giuseppe-1-768x429.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Giuseppe-1-624x349.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Giuseppe Morl\u00e8, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dear Thomas and Friends,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I\u2019m Giuseppe Morl\u00e8 (IZ0GZW) from Formia, in central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This time I wanted to experiment by combining three different antennas that interact with one another through induction. In the video, you\u2019ll see the Milk Box Loop, the SW\/MW Tablet, and the Wire Coil all working together to capture very faint 40-meter signals from W2V in North Carolina and ZL3CHE in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This experiment is especially promising as we move into the fall season, when nighttime listening on 40 meters becomes even more interesting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I\u2019ll continue testing with this fun, simple, and free antenna. You can see more <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wNX5A3iK7X0?si=uyMZcEvFS6nMTIaQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in this video<\/a>:<\/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\/wNX5A3iK7X0?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=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thank you all, and happy listening!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2014Giuseppe (IZ0GZW)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you so much for sharing another one of your antenna experiments and impressive results, Giuseppe!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Giuseppe Morl\u00e8, who writes: Dear Thomas and Friends, I\u2019m Giuseppe Morl\u00e8 (IZ0GZW) from Formia, in central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea. This time I wanted to experiment by combining three different antennas that interact with one another through induction. In the video, you\u2019ll see the Milk Box Loop, the [&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":[3607,3194,627,3,43],"tags":[4890,5791],"class_list":["post-63846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-guest-posts","category-how-to","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-antenna-projects","tag-giuseppe-morle-iz0gzw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gBM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55052,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/video-giuseppes-cassette-loop-on-the-shortwaves-with-induction\/","url_meta":{"origin":63846,"position":0},"title":"Video: Giuseppe&#8217;s &#8220;Cassette Loop&#8221; on the shortwaves with induction","author":"Thomas","date":"December 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Giuseppe Morl\u00e8 (IZ0GZW), who writes: Dear Thomas and Friends of the SWLing Post, I'm Giuseppe Morl\u00e8 from central Italy, Formia on the Tyrrhenian Sea... 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