Ham Radio - The GOOZEEZOO(a.k.a. Hamgeek HG-20a) magnetic loop antenna

Trying it out, doesn't work very well.. Nice hardware though.

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[nigelgough]

Hi Kevin, good to see you looking well. Thanks for the video.

[georgenunes]

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

[Philip-KAKOE]

Always love your preroll. Glad you're better.

[PaulaBean]

I appreciate you took the effort to draw a schematic. Now I can build and try such a control box myself.

[KPKB]

Great to see to back! Thanks for the info about this antenna.

[dougtaylor]

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.

[ominkan]

Thanks for the video. Really gives insight to what to pass up. It looks cool but that's all.

[johnpawlicki]

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.

[lilblackduc]

Thank you, Kevin! Take care of yourself and "Keep the Faith"! 🇺🇸 👍☕

[timmcilraith]

Hope we have our "good old Kevin" back for good. Much missed.

[norrinradd]

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.

[jorgecuadra]

Kevin. Nice to see you again. I hope you're ok in your recovery. Regards from Santiago of Chile. 73's CE3PSD

[DM-fzly]

for the $88+ dollars I would package it up and return it! Amazon "free returns" won't cost you a penny

[donnakano]

Thank you for putting out objective, quantifiable reviews.

[traveller-nl]

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.

[Steve-GMHUU]

👍Thanks for video Kevin. I think your idea to repurpose the parts is good.

[SparkyTom]

Once again you are saving me money. Thanks Kevin and I hope that your health continues to improve!

[elkabong]

Thorough review and the results speak for themselves! Good job!

[WECB]

Hi Kevin. This was a very good video and test of the GOOZEEZOO. Those tiny variable caps and thin wire interconnects can't possibly handle more than a few watts of RF because (as you know) all magnetic loops have very large currents and voltages on the loop. I would check the resistance of the loop with a bench supply and then read the mv drop with a DVM across the loop and compute via Ohms Law. it should be about 0.1 ohms or less. Let's also take apart that faulty balun and see why it adds loss and broadens the Q of the loop. Looking forward to the next video. Glad to see you're feeling stronger as time goes forward. 👍73 OM

[andrewhill]

Great your back doing videos. I've seen other reviews on these loops and none of them good. Fred in the shed had issues trying to tune 11m and I think he did a mod and it worked a little better ? All the best Andy M6APJ