Koji Oyama attended Hamvention 2019 in Dayton, Ohio. He saw various antenna products including the Alexloop by PY1AHD and LOOP series antennas by I3VHF. At the flea market, he found some vintage air variable capacitors. The Elecraft K4 was a popular topic of discussion. In 2017, Oyama built a multi-band loop antenna (MLA) for 40m and 30m bands while living in San Jose, California, and used it to make successful JT-65 QSOs between Japan and California.