Ciro Mazzoni Baby Loop now in place

 A few weeks ago I routed the 3 cables that run to the Baby Loop from the shack. This comprises the 4 core rotator cable for the Yaesu G-450C rotator, the 3 core tuner cable (only 2 cores used of course) and the antenna cable itself.

These all pass through a hole drilled in the wall which have junction boxes on either side. The cables all run in passthrough so there are no connections inside of the junction boxes. The boxes purely keep the elements out. 

Then the cables all run to a external garden electrical box and are coiled up inside when not in use.

The antenna assembly itself is mounted atop of a short mask comprising the rotor and various clamps. The base of the mast is secured to an old parasol base which is made from steel. The whole lot is stabilised by a pair of stage weights.

The rotor turns the antenna with ease and the antenna tunes well across the whole frequency spectrum,

Ciro Mazzoni Baby Loop follow up

 I have now mounted the antenna in the yard and confirm it works like a dream. It is mounted on a metal base previously used for a sun umbrella. Then there is an aluminium pole 1.5m long. The antenna is mounted on top of this. 

At the moment it is being fed with a temporary coax and control cable. I did this to trial it out and will make it more permanent in the near future.

The Ciro Mazzoni Baby Loop

It's been a while since I posted on here but I decided that I needed another antenna for 40m to 10m and the Ciro Mazzoni Baby Loop fits the bill.

At the moment it is mounted within the roof space and I can't get it to resonate on 21MHz but all other bands are ok. I think it may be some localized cable running to the lights in the loft that is causing the issue. However for now it is ok. I will be moving it into the yard as a more permanent site but not just yet. 

The ATU version 2 works really well as does the actuator controlling the whole antenna. 

I am just using the manual keypad as my CAT port is already occupied with a cable feeding the PC. The Ciro Mazzoni serial switch port splitter is expensive but may be a future purchase if it works ok with Ham Radio Deluxe etc.

The antenna and associated equipment are extremely well made, came in an enormous cardboard box which was well padded and should last a few years.