Ham Radio - The GOOZEEZOO(a.k.a. Hamgeek HG-20a) magnetic loop antenna
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Published 2024-08-03
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All Comments (21)
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for the $88+ dollars I would package it up and return it! Amazon "free returns" won't cost you a penny
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Hope we have our "good old Kevin" back for good. Much missed.
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I appreciate you spending your own money on reviewing this for us. No loop with tiny caps and a choke like that will perform as they claim. Folks are better off bending some copper by hand. Doesn’t have to be pretty, but does have to be efficient! Have a good weekend and thanks again! -Derek
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Hi Kevin, good to see you looking well. Thanks for the video.
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I appreciate you took the effort to draw a schematic. Now I can build and try such a control box myself.
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Lookin better man. Happy days. 🙂
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Thanks for the video. Really gives insight to what to pass up. It looks cool but that's all.
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Always love your preroll. Glad you're better.
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Great to see to back! Thanks for the info about this antenna.
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good to see you on
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Two thoughts. Take a dremel tool and cut the back open. Shorten the wires and cover the hole with a piece of flat plastic and a dab of silicone. Second is use the loop for AM radio station listening at night. I bet you can get so many stations out there they overlap. The loop might give you directional discretion. BTW, you look great Kevin. Look like you old self. Glad to see you back and feeling better.
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Looking better, I hope you feel better as well. It's difficult to know for sure if this antenna is intentionally bad with intent to maximize profit or perhaps it is defective. If you had the time perhaps you could improve this antenna and do a video about it. Thank you for sharing.
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I have a very wide band antenna that handles 100 watts and matches 1:1 across HF, VHF and UHF bands. It sits on my shack desk. It is, of course, my dummy load. Great video.
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Thank you for putting out objective, quantifiable reviews.
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Tnx Kevin. Nice parts though. Good Hardline for your other loop, nice box… Hmm just needs an inductor and you can make a manual T-match or even a Pi network out of it. Maybe even a pre-selector…? Plenty of opportunity to use your VNA with such projects.
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Best wishes for a full recovery Kevin! You are looking and sounding better every video! Sorry about the loop, we all have parts in our junk boxes from wished successes…. ham radio brat
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Glad to see your alive and well!
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Kevin. Nice to see you again. I hope you're ok in your recovery. Regards from Santiago of Chile. 73's CE3PSD
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Nice looking dummy load. The loop coax is probably the only thing worth using.
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Don't give them ideas Kevin! Even with the controls on the bottom of the box, the "improved" performance will still be pretty awful! Nicely made main loop though... (and if you put that lossy thin coax feed line, the SWR will look even "better"!)
