Thank you for the detailed information. I can only use an indoor antenna (I am not allowed to have anything outdoors) for my SW radio and the wire antenna does not help much so I will consider purchasing the MLA 30.
Thanks for the useful video, but are you sure that the cable you're showing has the correct MLA connector gender to connect to the bias tee? Mine requires a male SMA connector, like the one that appears bottom left in your video at 0:10 I live in a dense urban environment and I've had mixed results with my MLA30+. Altogether a bit disappointing. Good sensitivity but high noise floor. Not that better than a long wire antenna with a counterpoise.
Thank you for your comment. The cable you mentioned on the bottom left is from the MLA 30s biasing tee, the adaptor connects to that. I should have mentioned that in the video that that particular cable is from the biasing tee. This was one of a few takes that I did before uploading and is the only take where I didn’t mention what that cable was. Thanks for tuning in.
@@guitarmann4121 Thanks for replying. Let me see if I get it right: your MLA30+ came with a SMA male SMA male cable, one end plugs into the bias tee and the adapter you've bought plugs to the other end and to your receiver, correct? The difference with my setup is that my cable runs directly from the bias tee to the receiver, therefore it has MLA male at one end and 3.5mm jack at the other end.
Thanks much for this video. I appreciate that your videos are aimed at the beginner and / or casual listener. That describes me perfectly. I also saw your video about using a ground. Do you think that reception with the MLA-30 would be improved by using a ground, and if so, how would one ground that antenna? Thanks again for sharing your expertise
I recently got one of these antennas and had the exact opposite experience with it. I also had tuned in to WWV on 15khz and as soon as I disconnected the MLA-30 reception improved immediately. I couldn't hear it at all prior to turning off the loop antenna. I've heard only good things about this antenna, but so far I'm not impressed.
Ever wondered what you can achieve by using a decent quality active loop? In fact, a passive tunable loop is the better antenna for low grade portable radio's due to the fact that they have poor RF filters and the tunable loop is filtering by nature when tuning them. The result is little chance of overloading these radios. These loops can be easily made cheep simple project. Plans are to be found all over the internet and here on TH-cam. Good luck
Thank you for the detailed information. I can only use an indoor antenna (I am not allowed to have anything outdoors) for my SW radio and the wire antenna does not help much so I will consider purchasing the MLA 30.
Thanks for the useful video, but are you sure that the cable you're showing has the correct MLA connector gender to connect to the bias tee? Mine requires a male SMA connector, like the one that appears bottom left in your video at 0:10
I live in a dense urban environment and I've had mixed results with my MLA30+. Altogether a bit disappointing. Good sensitivity but high noise floor. Not that better than a long wire antenna with a counterpoise.
Thank you for your comment. The cable you mentioned on the bottom left is from the MLA 30s biasing tee, the adaptor connects to that. I should have mentioned that in the video that that particular cable is from the biasing tee. This was one of a few takes that I did before uploading and is the only take where I didn’t mention what that cable was. Thanks for tuning in.
@@guitarmann4121 Thanks for replying. Let me see if I get it right: your MLA30+ came with a SMA male SMA male cable, one end plugs into the bias tee and the adapter you've bought plugs to the other end and to your receiver, correct?
The difference with my setup is that my cable runs directly from the bias tee to the receiver, therefore it has MLA male at one end and 3.5mm jack at the other end.
Yes that is correct. Mine only came with male Sma’s that required an adapter.
Thanks much for this video. I appreciate that your videos are aimed at the beginner and / or casual listener. That describes me perfectly. I also saw your video about using a ground. Do you think that reception with the MLA-30 would be improved by using a ground, and if so, how would one ground that antenna? Thanks again for sharing your expertise
It’s not necessary to ground the MLA 30. It is a sealed pre constructed unit that doesn’t require any modification.
Thanks much. I appreciate the info. @@guitarmann4121
I recently got one of these antennas and had the exact opposite experience with it. I also had tuned in to WWV on 15khz and as soon as I disconnected the MLA-30 reception improved immediately. I couldn't hear it at all prior to turning off the loop antenna. I've heard only good things about this antenna, but so far I'm not impressed.
Ever wondered what you can achieve by using a decent quality active loop? In fact, a passive tunable loop is the better antenna for low grade portable radio's due to the fact that they have poor RF filters and the tunable loop is filtering by nature when tuning them. The result is little chance of overloading these radios. These loops can be easily made cheep simple project. Plans are to be found all over the internet and here on TH-cam. Good luck
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