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Happy birthday Doug ,raise a glass or two of the Amber nectar all the best .🥃🥃 Cheers Marky

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Absolutely Nerys👍 many of my (former) customers wanted to use these things on HF, mostly from aesthetics or stealth (🙄) aspects. Er! Efficiency? Wossat? 😉 They're not actually designed for transmission! Unless the circumference is a significant proportion (>30%) of the wavelength to be transmitted. Even then, put significant power into it and you risk burning anyone near it! Put just a few watts RF power into a small loop antenna and you get kilovolts on the antenna terminals, that's cos the TX current in the antenna is so high. So it needs a large expensive resonating capacitor with a very high breakdown voltage and low dielectric loss. What you have there looks more like a DF receiving antenna to me. I trust it is rotatable cos it's propagation/reception characteristic will be two main lobes 180° apart on the axis through the centre of of the circle. You mention "frequencies it's designed for", what frequencies are you using it for? I assume shortwave. Surprised that you have interference from ASDL! Although I realise that ASDL uses frequencies from 26.075 Megs upwards to 137Megs for the Upstream communication ASDL connections are usually screened underground cables which shouldn't bother you!? Unless there's a fault in the cable or your local distribution box😠 I only came across such loops (or more usually rectangular frame antennas) on board ships as an attempt to reduce the radar signature. Unfortunately at the expense of COMMS efficiency. ☹️ Cheers,Doug 😎

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This is a 650mm long yacht and was brought out as a cheaper alternative to the DragonForce 65. It has a wider beam than the DF but the sails etc. are very similar. It is a great yacht to sail and is ideal for learning to sail as it was for me.

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This is the third of my scratch builds in progress and again at a scale of 1:12. There are drawings available at this scale but I wanted to produce the rear cockpit version where the roof sits just under the coamings rather than the one with the roof level with the deck or the fully open cockpit version. I also wanted to incorporate changes to make it easier to build it the way I wanted to. The build of this boat is behind the other two and will continue to be so because I'm going to plank the deck and rear cockpit roof.

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This is the second of my scratch builds in progress and like them all is being built to a scale of 1:12. I've produced my own design because I wanted the whole of the superstructure to be removeable in one to allow easy access.

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This is the first of the scratch builds I'm undertaking and is at 1:12, so 23" long. The River Cruiser was a Fairey prototype based on the Huntress 23 hull but with a greater freeboard. Only one was built and didn't survive. My build is based on a black and white photograph and reference to the Huntress hull.

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This is a 1:12 model, so 23" long. It's one of the 2 prototypes designed and built by Dave Milbourn and as such the build quality and attention to detail is superb.

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It's a Precedent Huntsman 31, scale 1:8 and 47" long. My first purchase about 3 years ago when I first took an interest in the hobby. Well built, but heavy with the lead acid battery. Since taken that out along with the old RC gear, which is going to be replaced with modern kit, brushless motor and LiPo batteries for lighter weight and better performance.

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