Since I don’t often tune in shortwave and I don’t want to have to reset my antenna after every storm, I decided to look at the Tecsun AN-48X along with a YouLoop clone from China. Let’s ...

You’ll need a good antenna to do that, which is where this homebrew loop antenna for the shortwave radio bands shines. To be honest, pretty much any chunk of wire will do as an antenna for most ...

The SDRs I tested used a relatively new laptop computer and an MLA-30+ 100 kHz-30 MHz loop antenna purchased from Amazon for around $46. I could have used the SDRs with the longwire or indeed any ...