Well made, quality built antenna
First, let me say that I was under no illusions as to what this antenna could or couldn't do.<br /><br />On with the brief review:<br /><br />After viewing a ton of YouTube videos on various MLA's I figured that I would home brew one myself.  A month after that, and after acquiring only a few of the items necessary I figured it would take months to get this done (that's how things are at this moment, so when Chameleon antenna ran a big sale on the P-loop (&lt;$350) I jumped on the deal! Less than a week later it arrived and I threw it up on it's selfie-stick mount and plugged in my antenna analyzer. Tuning was easy and the bandwidth, while small, wasn't really as bad as I thought it would be during operation and tune-retune. Note: I didn't try to make a perfectly round loop, nor did I get scientific about where to put the aluminum loop. I just eye-balled it. My initial testing was on receive using my FT-817. I noticed a tremendous difference in signals received compared against other indoor antennas I've tried. Today I made a 1500 mi. contact with 0 sunspots while using this antenna indoors, and in the middle of the room, and I am happy about that!<br /><br />Things I like:<br />1. It's easy to put up and/or take down<br />2. Very portable. Everything fits into the canvas bag it came with.<br />3. It's pretty much a no-brainer to use.<br />4. Because of the nature of the loop it's very selective. What I mean by that is - by turning the antenna one way or the other it's easy to zero in on who you want to talk to while cutting out stations on nearby frequencies, or atmospheric noise.<br /><br />Things I don't like:<br />1. As it comes, it will only take up to 25watts (SSB).<br />2. You can't tune it or rotate it remotely. This means the antenna has to be close enough to re-tune when changing bands or frequencies<br /><br />(I do remember seeing a remote tuner/rotator on their website before, but apparently it's no longer being made/sold.)<br /><br />For field day or other portable communications I think this would be ideal, and I plan to use it outdoors before it gets too hot in Texas. If I could put up something outside I would have gone a different route, but things being the way they are, the best antenna for me to use is the P-Loop. For a good loop comparison do a search for OH8STN on YouTube. He does a good job of reviewing this stuff. I knocked off 1-star for lacking remote tuning ability.
Rating: 4 stars