short wave listening

2-Element-Yagis for shortwave - 2-Element parasitic Yagis for the Shortwave-Bands 10m-30m

20m T-Monopole - 20m T-Monopole short vertical antenna for 20 meters by AA5TB

How to make an end-fed antenna work  ^pop - Here is a sure fire way to make end-fed halfwave antennas fed with a 50 ohm coupler work - without long radials, grounds, chokes, voodoo.

End-Fed Halfwave Antenna  ^pop - The end-fed halfwave antenna is a resonant half wavelength long antenna like a dipole antenna except for it is fed at its end rather then in the center. This antenna is as old as radio and is probably best known as the Zepp Antenna

The quarter wave transformer - A transient analysis of an inpedance transforming device, by W9DMK, in pdf format

Home Brew VHF UHF dual band antenna  ^pop - Contructing precedure and tune up of a dual band mobile antenna. This antenna is just a 1/4 wavelength resonator for both UHF and VHF band. It provides no GAIN as compared to other multi-section design.

The PA2S 50 MHz Tape Archives - The PA2S Tape Archives. Many RealAudio sound clips of 50 MHz DX contacts, recorded during solar cycle 21 and 22.

How Radio Works - Excellent slides explaining radio and radiowaves generation basics

Longwave operations - In the VLF portion of the spectrum it is easy to listen to the emissions created by the Earth itself. These emissions are generated by many different mechanisms and are often beautiful to listen to. Coverage on LF and MF frequencies

Really Low Frequency Operating - The world below 500 kHz (The wavelength is 1500 meters or just about a mile) has a number of interesting listening and communications opportunities with possibly more to come.

WA4DSY 56KB RF Modem - This is a prototype of the WA4DSY 56KB RF modem. It is intended for use on amateur packet radio networks. The modem generates RF in the 28 to 30 mhz range and requires and linear transverter to convert the signal to a UHF or microwave ham band

Airband - Airband Online, Airband Scanners, Communications Monitoring, Shortwave and WorldSpace Radio Suppliers.

ASWLC - American shortwave listeners' club

Benelux dx club - The official website of the Benelux DX-Club (BDXC), a club of radio listening amateurs, founded in November 1961

Shortwave Radio Appraisal Tool - Just fill out a form and LessWaiting.com will appraise the value of your shortwave radio instantly, free of charge.

SWR Calculator - Computes the Standing Wave Ratio, given the power readings on a line.

XLZIZL by AC6LA - XLZIZL is an Excel application that analyzes the components of an antenna feed system, including transmission lines, stubs, baluns, and tuners. Calculations include impedance transforms, SWR and reflection coefficient, power loss, voltage and current standing waves, stress on tuner components, network attenuation (S21), and return loss Analysis results are available in worksheet format and in five different chart formats, including Smith charts.

BBLogger - BBLogger, a freeware windows software to fully manage you Amateur or Short Wave Listener Radio Station written by Giorgio IK2VIW

Baudline signal analyzer - A Linux based FFT spectrum analyzer designed for time-frequency browsing and scientific data visualization. Oscilloscope waveform, statistical histogram, accumulated spectral trace,Weak Signal reception, continuos data logging, FFT Analyzer and specialized measurement windows.

GNU Radio - GNU FSF Project - GNU Radio is a collection of software that when combined with minimal hardware, allows the construction of radios where the actual waveforms transmitted and received are defined by software

High Performance Software Defined Radio - The HPSDR is an open source, GNU type, hardware and software project intended as a "next generation" Software Defined Radio (SDR) for use by Radio Amateurs and Short Wave Listeners

EDXC plc report - Power Line Communications, a threat for radio listening, Università degli Studi di Pisa

Wave report BPL tutorial - Broadband Power Line Tutorial by James Stenger

Bpl interference blocked in europe - Blog post announcing that Ham Radio, shortwave listeners and broadcast band listeners will be protected by Law in Europe

Wavefront CompactPCI (CPCI) RF converter - The Wavefront CompactPCI (CPCI) RF converter provides a complete half-duplex radio front-end in an industry-standard 6U format. The architecture consists of dedicated receive and transmit channels that share a common RF interface.