I get the idea of recommending a high dynamic range receiver for the YouLoop, but I wanted a different approach for using the antenna with my portables.
Getting to the point, the mismatch is horrid with my Grundig G3. The result is a need for ridiculous volume levels to discern signals. Yeah, not fun.
I was using a cheap eBay preamp with an antennuator to deal with the mismatch, but that also likely was putting a significant dent in the resulting SNR. Also it was something else to power while portable.
I could have tried to rolling a transformer to optimize the band(s) of interest, but that did not sound like fun, either. So taking the slacker route, I grabbed my currently unused MFJ-16010 for a try.
The 16010 is a simple L-network tuner for longwires. That said it actually works quite nicely with the YouLoop, especially since we are not transmitting and needing ideal matching. It is easy enough to simply swap the connections if needing to invert the match range, too.
Listening to 75m in a test tonight went from weak signals at high volume to much easier copies at moderate volume. Yes the absolute SNR is essentially the same, of course, but the little G3 portable has usable signal transfer now. Yay!