Finally made some real progress on the magloop after adding a 100 pF capacitor in parallel to the 5-250 pF variable capacitor…at least on 80m. Now there's too much capacitance to hit 40m. 
The SWR on 80m is really good. When I tested FT8 at 100 W, it was around 1.1. :D
But there's a lot of noise. :(
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • •Aw man, something just fried. The SWR jumped from 1.1 to way high out of nowhere. I'm guessing it's "The Doohickey" since that switch probably wasn't really rated for 100 W. :P
Time to build a new one that includes what I learned building the first one! I'll still use the same coil and so on, but I'll have to cut the switch out and toss it. The upside is that I already ordered a pair of beefy switches, using one for disabling the magloop's fixed capacitor and having an extra one, so that means I won't have to wait as long! :3
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