[Elecraft] Mag Loop from MFJ

[Morgan Bailey]

They are unreliable pieces of junk. The housing does not protect the
capacitors that are in house made and bugs can crawl into the housing and
short them out. Secondly, the plastic housing in Kansas will be destroyed
by the sun. The best thing about the loop is the loop itself. It is built
well. The caps are cheap. Tuning the bastard is not consistent, not fast,
and highly touchy. The only loop worth purchasing is the Ciro Mazzoni loop
from Italy sold by DX engineering. It will take abuse and has an excellent
tuning feature that will follow your radio. Each time you change freq with
the MFJ it is a task to get it to tune again. A friend of mine bought one
and it was soon offered to me for $100. Then he became so frustrated with
it that he wanted me to take it for free if I would dig the post out of the
ground he mounted it on. I Passed knowing that any dipole would blow it
away. Even an end fed random wire will beat it in performance if put up
right. In the end there are many cheaper options that work far better than
the MFJ mag loop.

73,
Morgan NJ8M

BS + MS + $2.98 = COFFEE
Real Life Experience = Priceless, says the man who set his back yard on
fire with a breadboard tuner loading a 160 meter inverted L with 1000
watts. LOL