Does having salt water underneath improve the performance of magnetic loops? https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/2d61903f-5b52-42cc-8353-a722b5d1c855 Does having a conductive surface under a magnetic loop antenna improve results? Up to now I hadn't been so sure. Previous experiments with radials hadn't been conclusive. I took the opportunity of good weather and a sporadic-E opening on 10 metres to venture into the water with a pedestrian mobile magnetic loop to find out. Although signals were volatile I was able to confirm a benefit of being in the water. VK5KLT's paper on magnetic loops: http://www.brisdance.com/vk4amz/files/Download/UnderMagLoop.pdf VK4AMZ's observations: http://www.brisdance.com/vk4amz/Loop5.html PS: If you liked this video please consider supporting Amateur Radio VK3YE by: Subscribing on YouTube,, Checking my books page at https://books.vk3ye.com, Shopping on Amazon via: https://amzn.to/3iiDQXv, or, Shopping on eBay via: https://ebay.us/i9DuWP (then if you buy something I'll get a small commission at no cost to you) Sun, 03 May 2026 09:54:51 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co Does having salt water underneath improve the performance of magnetic loops? https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/2d61903f-5b52-42cc-8353-a722b5d1c855 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.