Adrian, I would say your english usage and composition is darn near
perfect. Ok now to the antenna, does your apartment have a balcony? I live
in an apartment and am using a Super Antennas MP-1 ( hand operated
screwdriver type antenna). I do get out with it, granted there are more
effective antennas than this, but it gets me on the air. I do like the idea
of the loop however as I think it would be a bit less receptive to noise.
Keep us posted will you please. I hope to hear you on 20M possibly sometime.

73,
WB7FFI transplanted to W4 land.............

"Adrian Scripca YO8SSW" wrote in message
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Hello all,

Trying to get back to haming after few years I have purchased an used
FT100D. The problem is the antenna. I've been searching the net for HF
antenna designs that can fit my apartment's balcony. I really don't
have too much space available since the apartment is rented and I live
at the 9th floor.

I read about magnetic loops and I liked G4FON's version (
http://www.g4fon.net/MagLoopTwo.htm ) I have about 30 meters of RG58 (
4mm diameter ) available and was thinking of trying his implementation.
The only problem is that I can't find FT50-61 toroid around here so
I'll try to feed the RF to the loop through a 1/5 coax coupling loop.

Question is : will it support all the power the FT100 delivers ( 100W
) supposing I'll use a highvoltage cap ? Tips and tricks about magloops
construction will also be appreciated.

73s de YO8SSW

P.S. : I am not a native english speaker so please excuse my possible
mistakes.