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Ground Loops

OOPS! – Wrong ground loop – LMAO! If you spend enough time digging through YouTube videos on SWL (Short Wave Listening) and amateur radio antennas you will run into Loop On Ground antennas for receiving. The simple fact is that they do work – not a miracle cure-all for all situations – but rather thinkContinue reading “Ground Loops”

More Radio Stuff & Busy Busy Besides

retire they said – it will be fun – you will have so much time on your hands they said So this was what I started with . . . first the loop and random wire – then added the discone . . . left to right – random wire – PRO 1B loop –Continue reading “More Radio Stuff & Busy Busy Besides”

Starting (slowly) To Come Together

(upper left / RSPDXr2 – upper right / Airspy HF+ Discovery / lower left / RSPDX – lower right / RSP1B – bottom center / RSP nRSP-ST) (allows me to swap the bottom center monitor – fed off the laptop – and put short-wave info in front instead of the RSP nRSP-ST – just dragContinue reading “Starting (slowly) To Come Together”

SCANKING HF Discone – not a re-hash . . .

So I actually covered this in a post – <<<CLICK HERE>>> – this is just some thoughts on the antenna – not the best performer until you get above 30Mhz – it does work below 30 – but it is a compromise – it performs quite well for VHF and UHF – haven’t found anythingContinue reading “SCANKING HF Discone – not a re-hash . . .”

Most Bang For The Buck! – The Random Wire Antenna

The simplest antenna you can make/install? Run a speaker wire out the window and clip it on your radio – and you are in business. I have used random wire antennas almost exclusively since the early 1960’s – they are simple /cheap/easy – and they work! If you want to do a wire right –Continue reading “Most Bang For The Buck! – The Random Wire Antenna”

Radio New Zealand International – Starting Some Antenna Testing – Oh Boy!

Just a quick one here folks / antenna A is the DXE-RF-PRO-1B from DX Engineering – good stuff! / antenna B – A Random Wire / And antenna C is the Scanking HF Discone 0.05 To 2000 MHz Antenna from Nevada Radio (UK) The antennas vary widely in cost and mounting practices – and thereContinue reading “Radio New Zealand International – Starting Some Antenna Testing – Oh Boy!”

More Radio Stuff & Friday Music on Tuesday??

So once again – if something can be screwed up – it will be . . . Busy times, so I scheduled several posting to drop – don’t know for sure how I screwed up – but I managed to do it – OOPS . . . Now onto some radio stuff . . .Continue reading “More Radio Stuff & Friday Music on Tuesday??”

All I Get is Noise!!

Here is one approach to the issue . . . And there are other ways to mitigate noise – first pic is the is with the loop ( DXE-RF-PRO-1B ) facing 90/270 degrees – remember – as you are looking through the loop it hears equally well to the sides – the open is theContinue reading “All I Get is Noise!!”

SKY KING – SKY KING / DO NOT ANSWER . . .

I do so want a discone antenna – and THIS is quite a discone antenna . . . Maybe I can talk my CFO aka Blushing Bride into one of these – I’m not holding out hope for a Collins built 70 footer – LOL! Been working on the radio room and just about haveContinue reading “SKY KING – SKY KING / DO NOT ANSWER . . .”

KBS on 15575 – Random Wire vs Loop And Some Pi4 Stuff . . .

Here is the station we are looking at/listening to . . . Switched over to the wire antenna . . . And here’s the loop antenna . . . Do you remember the 3 most important rules of real estate – Location / Location / Location?? SWL ( Short Wave Listening ) has the sameContinue reading “KBS on 15575 – Random Wire vs Loop And Some Pi4 Stuff . . .”