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Loop on Ground (LoG) Antenna Isolation Transformer Build - Save Money $$$
Build your own isolation transformer for your loop on ground (Log) antenna
Save a LOT of money $$$ compared to commercially-made products
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📷 Video about the Loop on Ground: th-cam.com/video/DtYNNxZTDrU/w-d-xo.html
Parts list:
➡️Project box - amzn.to/3AMhWcv
➡️F-Type female bulkhead connectors - amzn.to/47aOrgB
➡️28 AWG magnet wire: amzn.to/478ndqR
➡️BN-73-202 Ferrite Core - amzn.to/3z1pAiD
➡️F to PL259 adapter - amzn.to/4e6YSnA
➡️Coax - 75 Ohm TV Coax - amzn.to/4e5vSwq
Resources:
➡️w8ji.com/beverages.htm
➡️www.kk5jy.net/LoG/
Music: artlist.io
Save a LOT of money $$$ compared to commercially-made products
👍Buy me a coffee: buymeacoffee.com/wd4dan
📷 Video about the Loop on Ground: th-cam.com/video/DtYNNxZTDrU/w-d-xo.html
Parts list:
➡️Project box - amzn.to/3AMhWcv
➡️F-Type female bulkhead connectors - amzn.to/47aOrgB
➡️28 AWG magnet wire: amzn.to/478ndqR
➡️BN-73-202 Ferrite Core - amzn.to/3z1pAiD
➡️F to PL259 adapter - amzn.to/4e6YSnA
➡️Coax - 75 Ohm TV Coax - amzn.to/4e5vSwq
Resources:
➡️w8ji.com/beverages.htm
➡️www.kk5jy.net/LoG/
Music: artlist.io
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Awesome video Dan. BTW I won't take offense to being one of the "commercial" vendors lol
I found when using 75ohm cable and a 60-70foot circumference loop that a 3/10 winding worked best, that bumped the ratio to 1/11 or 75/825 ohm. It gave me better performance, along with adding a 1m Ohm to bleed the loop of static and pair of inverse diode on the coax side to kill any voltages that could be introduced from nearby transmitting antenna.
@spareiChan awesome info! I have more cores. I'll give this a shot. If it ends up being better than it already is..wow!
@@WD4DAN Might be worth it if you got the extra cores, I use the same one. my loop is about 70~ft of 12awg low voltage cable (2x wires) with about 100ft of RG6Q and a 20db LNA inside, gives the same signal level as my DX commander with a bit less noise.
When I watched the last video I read bunch of articles about the transformer setup. Great follow up video.
My parts just came in the mail for this. Ordered them after your past video! Looking forward to see how well it works
Keep both. They are both great radios.
@@eyemanny493 that's right!
Sure would be nice to mute that sub band by pushing the knob in. Great video Dan the loop is a great receive antenna especially if you have a lot of noise.
Thanks for the comparison Dan. We have four of the 7610s at the radio club and I'll admit they are very fine radios. (long time old school Kenwood guy here)
Hey congrats! I just got my Extra ticket punched in July! Maybe we will contact someday. 73 N3DLY
Dan you are toooooo funny 😅
Yaesu radios have tons of advanced features which require a flick through the manual. The MUTE is the green button in the center above vfo, both vfo’s have a green and a red button, the red is for transmit main or sub and the green for receive for main and sub which is essentially mute. Yaesu has used this feature in their contest grade radios for a very long time.
@@pastorshanewotcb9884 figured that out! Thanks. Another quirk is if you have sub muted and sync vfos, it'll unmute the sub. Love the radio though!!
Yes there are things I dont like either, but yes love mine too.
Oh yeah wanted to ask, have you tried the usb connections on the front for cat, I havent either and was wondering if it would work. I tried a isb key board and mouse and they worked great.
@@pastorshanewotcb9884 i have not and assume they won't work for cat and soundcard stuff
Actially, I have one among other antennas. Yes, it has a bit less noise, but I am in the mountains so my 40 meter inverted V is pretty quiet too. Contrary to popular perception if you don't exceed the power rating of your transformer you can transmit on it in a manner that is essentially NVIS thus have nice chats with the guy in the next town on 40 meters. I checked mine with my Nano Vna & while resonance is where the absolute value of inductive reactance equals the absolute value of capacitive reactance thus each cancels each other & the impedance is strictly resistive it is resonate on some frequency if not several. I think what you meant is having a relective power indicated by an swr of 1 to 1 relative to 50 ohm coax. Anyway, mine has about a 1.3 to 1 swr pretty much across 40 meters, but that's to be expected since its roughly one 40 M wave length at 40 meters. Its Ok on 20 M too but not quite as good. 80 meters I say it is disappointing and I would go with a larger loop than the 15 foot square if 80 meters was of real interest.
@migalito1955 I had a 200' square before I moved along with the 15'. I'll probably put the big loop back up but it'll probably be only about 75' square.
@@WD4DAN Yea, I was thinking about installing another but larger so I could get 160 meters & on up. I have hundreds of feet of solid aluminum mig welding wire I like using because it cost only $7 at Harbor Freight, but it would likely be problematic laying on the ground. I have several hundred feet of magnet wire I harvested from old transformers, but I use it in band pass filters for receivers and would hate to not have it later. The one I have now is 14 gage insulated house wire that I found half of a spool of. I suppose I could splice it to the rest I found & may do that to get good reception on top band. Trouble is, after 6 months the wire I installed burried itself like the root of a carrot so I'd rather go totally new.
Great video please put out another video after you've had the 101D for another year and I think you'll be ready to give up the icom a little bit easier than having a gun pointed to your head I'm a little bit partial to Yazoo but I am honest in my opinions so give me another report a year from now ,thank you very much for the video again and I do believe icom is a great radio.. please take my comments with a grain of salt haha happy dxing. KA4USA. THAT'S NOT A VANITY CALL.
I gotta try this
Use a LoG with my kenwood 590s (has rec port), using RG6 as feed and about 75ft of 12awg twin wire, cuts out a lot of noise.
I’m glad you like the tie Dan. Catch you soon on POTA! Chris KC4NW.
Yes! Thank you so much!!
Congratulations Dan!! Chris KC4NW
Thank you! And thanks for the bow tie!
Thanks Dan. Works and looks great. A really useful addition to any QRZ page.
Yup
Great Video. I also have a LoG on my 7610 and use it all the time.
Enjoyed the video
Been meaning to put one of these up..err, down for over a year. I need to get to it.
American or Cheddar
Wiz is for tourists!
But you forget the Ft-dx 101, has a far better receiver than the Icom 7610, if you dont hear a station you dont work it..🤔
I did mention that in the video.
While the DVI is a irritation a DVI to HDMI adapter is cheap an easy.
Im suprised the 101d doesn't have a bar graph meter. My older yaseu 1200 has the option
What weather software are you using Dan? Thx!
@@Kyle-KC9IMA that was radarscope
@@WD4DAN Thanks!
FTDX101D top of screen press RXMain or RXSub buttons to mute sound, easy
@robertallbright does that mute the audio or turn off the receiver totally? Good work around though!
It just turns off the audio Many thanks for an excellent video 73 Rob G3RCE
Look at you dropping new videos all over the place while I was away. Good stuff.
K8MRD for the win! with the first and only right answer. Kyle AA0Z lives in a state that puts " Provel" on what passes for pizza and every other dang thing its MADNESS!!!!!
congrats!
I like the RF gain better on the Yaesu. It also serves as a sort of squelch, and combined with the DNR and the very quiet DX makes for almost FM level copy. And yes you can record QSOs. Essentially you gotta choose whether or not you want another 20 db of strong adjacent signal rejection.
How can I record qsos?
@@WD4DAN it’s one of the primary manual items when you press the function button on my DX 10 I have to assume that it’s the same on the 101.
@@Kibwunga Your assumption is incorrect.
There will be a new Icom in your shack in 2025 or if the goose craps a golden egg an Elecraft HD.
So you like A. Why do you hate B? LOL....Super thorough video, thanks! I wish Yaesu's DNR/filters were wrapped in an Icom GUI/menu structure....I was blown away on the Rx after upgrading from a 7300 to FT-DX10. But far prefer Icom's intuitive UI. 73 Dan!
Thanks for the review from a real world / heavy user perspective.
An interesting perspective (I have the FTDX101MP). We all have different usage patterns so I have never used the voice recorder functions. However I have used remote FT8 using a Raspberry Pi with a single USB cable to the radio. The SCU-LAN10 was on back order for a long time despite the price, not used that much yet but quite easy to set up. The receivers are superb (but the low first IF does mean if you tune around 32MHz you will hear activity on the 20m band).
Great video! de W2CSI
Congrats
@@stephenvandyke8014 thanks!
I think the hat is going to give it away
Ok half way through and I think I’m wrong lol
Great video and I appreciate the comparison. Been looking to upgrade my 7300 and it’s looking like the 101d will be my pick. That x60 is too steep
You'll like the 101d. It's a great radio
Nice comparison of the differences but in the end the vast majority of them are just implementation differences that are to be expected between radios. Once you become familiar with how a particular manufacturer sets things up on their radios, you can operate it quickly and efficiently, even if it seems to take more steps. I have both ICOM and Yaesu radios and I didn’t purchase either one based on voice memories, controls or buttons. I based it on RX capability/sensitivity and noise reduction/elimination.
You can play your voice record thru monitor at the same time record it on the PC. Then transfer the files to Yaesu (?)
Transfer it to Yaesu how? I don't see any of my current voice recordings on the sdcard, so I wouldn't know how to name the file, or what folder structure they should be in.
Informative! I had looked into purchasing an Icom 7610 or the Yaesu FTDX101(D-MP) but at the time the Icom 7610 was out of stock everywhere and so I decided to purchase the Flex 6400M after being unsure about the Yaesu instead but I eventually did purchase the Icom 7610 ounce it became available and after extensive research and after having loved and still loving my Icom 7300! The determining factor was the screen on the FTX101(D-MP) had been reported by many HAM’s as not nearly as nice and as customizable as the Icom 7610 (like I loved and was use to on my 7300)! As far as my Flex 6400M I still have it but I was very disappointed that it does not have two true independent receivers like the 7610 and 101 plus the waterfall was not as customizable as the Icom plus I missed the RF Gain of the Icom’s as it’s very useful to quickly lower the noise floor as you stated in your video! 73
Flex has their own issues that I brought up with them 2 years ago in Orlando, which they haven't addressed, so I went elsewhere. You shouldn't need multiple third party apps running to do what most every other radio does natively. I'm happy with the 101D for sure, and still happy with my 7610 too.
Yaesu DNR is God tier. That's the difference maker.
@@johnratcliffe6438 for sure. I love it
Yes Yaesu DNR is amazing Rob G3RCE
Congrats Dan!
Was the question on the Extra test?
@@KeithS_WA6QXA 🤣
Great review Dan. I hope Yaesu sees this video! I have the FT-DX10 and have been happy with it, to the point I bought an FT-710 I now exclusively use for POTA, instead of my 891.
Shunt the hell up that's an awesome meter.. 😂
@@patrickday4206 haha could have both!
So you are not a yaesu fan.
Not what I said at all
Good luck waiting for Yaesu to do a firmware update.
I figured as much lol
@@WD4DANgood video though thanks
Provolone for sure!!