short wave listening

Minooka or Battle Creek special - Description of shortened 160 meter vertical

Double Extended Zepp Antenna  ^pop - This double extended Zepp provides 3 db gain over a dipole on the band it is designed for. Each side or leg is about 5/8 wavelength long.

Linear-Loaded Dipole for 7 MHz  ^pop - A short but efficient dipole for 40 meters band

Simple active antenna - This circuit shows an active antenna that can be used for AM, FM, and shortwave

Portable QRP HF Antennas - Notes on the end-fed half-wave antenna, single-band stub-fed EFHW and a multiband EFHW antenna

160 meter full wave loop antenna  ^pop - The antenna is a 10 - 160 meter horizontal loop fed with 450 ohm ladder line all the way into the ham shack to an Palstar AT1500BAL balanced line antenna tuner

The Lattin 5 Band antenna  ^pop - The antenna was named for W4JRW who invented it and holds a patent on the basic principle and uses quarter wave stubs, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meter bands

Shortwave antenna - Magic Anti-Jamming antenna for shortwave reception

Longwire antenna basics  ^pop - basic notes on building longwire antennas for medium waves

Apartment antennas notes - HF Ham Radio antennas for apartments and methods of shortening antennas

Integrated Publishing Basics - Radio wave propagation, Principles of transmission lines, Antennas

Petlowany Three-Band Burner Antenna - a simple, low-cost, trapless short vertical antenna which amazingly works on three HF bands (20, 15 and 10 meters)

Phased Arrays - Phased arrays of short vertical antennas, pdf file

Short Dipoles  ^pop - Short dipoles and verticals for 160 80 and 40 meters

Introduction to PMR 446 Radio in UK - PMR 446 is a short-range radio system, usually using small walkie-talkies, which can be used by anyone in UK and does not require a radio licence

Sheffield A.R.C. - Sheffield Amateur Radio Club has, for many years, provided a meeting place and training facility for those interested in Amateur Radio and Short Wave Listening.

Lincoln Short Wave Club - One of the oldest radio clubs in the UK.

European Medium Wave Guide - Literally all long and medium wave stations in Europea, North Africa and Middle East.

Iraq War Frequency Info. - IRAQ War Military HF freqs, Aero HF frequencies and Shortwave Broadcast schedules of interest

Monitoring Iraq: War of the Airwaves - Schedules and local radios broadcasting from and to Iraq during war.

Lee Electronics - Offers Scanners, Shortwave, Wide-Band receivers, accessories from Icom, AOR, Sangean and Grundig.

The Shortwave Store - World Band Radios and accessories for your listening needs! Grundig, Sangean, Sony, WiNRADiO and much more.

Jupiter 400 Radio Network - Jupiter 400 Radio Networks providing International Short Wave entainment for North America and beyond

ISSTV - ISSTV is a freeware software for amateur radio that allow sstv connections via internet and radio waves

Grounding system - Perhaps one of the most over looked aspects of setting up a listening post is a ground system