short wave listening581

7Mhz Vertical antenna  ^pop - The secret with this antenna is to install as many radials as you can around the base of the antenna, they can be anything from 1/8 wave or longer.

Understanding Standing Wave Ratios SWR - We worry a lot about Standing Wave Ratio (SWR) in amateur radio since SWR is one indication of how well our antenna system is working. Most HF transceivers and antenna tuners have built in SWR meters. SWR is a measure of a transceiver’s output power verses the portion of that power reflected by the antenna system By Ken Larson KJ6RZ

SWR: Maximum allowable VSWR - VSWR (voltage-standing-wave-ratio) represents the degree with which an antenna is "matched" to the system impedance. Most modern antennas do not require any tuning for optimum performance. VSWR is one of the easiest parameters to measure and VSWR meters are becoming very popular antenna installation tools

Setting the SWR of Your Antenna - SWR (standing wave ratio), is a measurement of how efficiently your antenna system will radiate the power available from your radio. In simple terms, your radio would like to radiate all of its power, but can only do so if the other components cooperate

Umbrella Loop Antenna - Contruction notes of an Umbrella Loop antenna for AM shortwave listenings

Thinking about Ideal Loops - Loop antennae have been used from ELF to UHF since the beginning of radiocommunications. At low frequencies, the main problem for loop antennae is to have enough sensitivity; the antenna being very small respect to the wavelength the collected energy is also small. To increase the output level the loop may be made resonant, so loosing it%u2019s intrinsic aperiodic characteristics.

A Magnetic Loop antenna for 7-21 mhz - If you find external wire antennas obtrusive for amateur radio or short wave listening, then this is the antenna for you, is just 1 meter diameter

The Quarter Wave Sloper or the Inverted-V Dipole - A question that seems to be asked nearly everyday is, which is best, the quarter wave sloper or the inverted-V dipole? PDF File by AD communications.

Groundplane antenna - Short guide to build your own groundplane antenna, includes radial measurements fro warc bands

40m Short Antenna  ^pop - GM4JMU shortened dipole for 40 meters band

How create simple dipoles - How to create a simple but effective half wave dipole, illustrated instrucions on how to build wire antennas

IOTA Groups and Reference Numbers - Short Format List of IOTA Groups and Reference Numbers

Sounds Sweet Communications Speakers - Speakers for Amateur Radio, 2-Way Radio, Shortwave and Scanner listening

Guide to the SW Spectrum - Quick guide to the shortwave spectrum

Continuous Wave ATV System - 70 cm Digital Amateur Television system for northeastern New Jersey

G1HIA ATV and microwaves - Operates fast-scan FM-television in the 1.3, 2.3 and 10.3 GHz bands

Pascall Electronics - Pascall's specialist RF & Microwave division specialise in components for radar, EW receivers, navigation & location equipment, communication and marine safety systems.

Electron Tubes and Vacuum Tubes for Industry - Electron tube and vacuum tube stock-list with prices 4. Audio, broadcast and industrial tubes, triodes, tetrodes, thyratrons, ignitrons, vidicons and CRT's, microwave devices, nixies and receiving types + Bird RF devices and test equipment. Quality tubes at reasonable prices with many hard to find items available

The DX Handbook - Free huge and reliable BCL reference for shortwave enthusiasts. Includes a large schedule list diveded by bands. Is mainly in italian, but schedule listings are easy to understand. Edited by Enrico Oliva

Young Stars Radio Club - Young Stars Radio Club, is a group consisting the short wave radio listeners' and DXers - having the hobby of radio listening and QSL collection, sharing the experiences and views about international radio broadcasting

EiBi Schedules - Regularly update shortwave schedules of all international broadcasters listed by time or frequency; for free.

DSPBOX - DOS Freeware, DSPBOX is an attempt to code the Texas Instruments DSK 'C50 in such a way to make it behave like a commercial DSP noise reduction unit, like the NIR-12, the TimeWave 599+ and others. Not only the noise reduction function has been implemented, but automatic notch, AGC and Band Pass have as well.

Cobracom - Oscilloscope, Realtime spectrum analyzer, Impedance meter, RLC bridge and signal generator for Windows. Is a Windows application that converts your PC into a powerful dual-trace signal analyzer (oscilloscope, FFT etc...) . Uses your PC sound card as an Analog-to-Digital a Converter to digitize any input waveform and as Digital-to-analog Converter for the signal generator. True 24 bit adc/dac 48K/96k/192k sampes/sec.

SpectraScope - SpectraScope is a simple Windows interface program allowing your computer to view up to two audio waveforms in either the time or frequency domain. The program is a Windows soft panel operating as a dual channel oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer. The useful frequency of operation is 20 to 10,000 Hz in the time domain and 20 to 20,000 Hz in the frequency domain. The program uses the computer sound card to capture the audio input.

Audio spectrum analyzer  ^pop - Analyzes audio from 10 Hz to 20 kHz, input from microphone or wave file, Variable sample rates (8000 Hz, 11025 Hz, 22050 Hz, 44100 Hz) Variable transform sizes (1k, 2k, 4k, 8k) Upper and lower limits adjustable Continuous, averaged, peak hold