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<blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 3750417" data-attributes="member: 45785"><p>A "good antenna" can be make from a piece of wire of nearly any length. If there is a particular band or frequency you want to listen in on, you can cut the wire to a fraction or multiple of the wavelength to get better reception. Find a copy of the ARRL Handbook, or the ARRL Antenna book. <a href="http://www.arrl.org/9" target="_blank">ARRL | Ham Radio Publications, Books, Equipment, Gear</a> or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Books-ARRL/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AARRL" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a></p><p></p><p>You can also get fancier and much more expensive (and better) antennae or build them yourself. The ARRL is for radio amateurs, or Hams. But the math works for any frequency in general, and where it doesn't work specifically, like extremely long or short wave radio, the ARRL books tell you, and how to deal. Some folks make their own microwave waveguides. Ham licenses are much easier to get now, since the basic license no longer requires Morse Code, but for the more specialized equipment you need a higher level license, and ability to read code. And the ARRL is the source for much of the info on all that, too!</p><p></p><p>Bill <----- tone deaf and with no sense of timing or rhythm, so was unable to learn enough code to get a license back in the day, but my dad was a Ham, so was around it until I left home. And the last dozen years of my USAF career I was a SATCOM tech & operator, and worked with wideband and HF radio troops, too. If you really get into it, it can be a fun, but potentially expensive hobby, and I have quite enough of those already!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BillM, post: 3750417, member: 45785"] A "good antenna" can be make from a piece of wire of nearly any length. If there is a particular band or frequency you want to listen in on, you can cut the wire to a fraction or multiple of the wavelength to get better reception. Find a copy of the ARRL Handbook, or the ARRL Antenna book. [URL="http://www.arrl.org/9"]ARRL | Ham Radio Publications, Books, Equipment, Gear[/URL] or [URL="https://www.amazon.com/Books-ARRL/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AARRL"]Amazon.com[/URL] You can also get fancier and much more expensive (and better) antennae or build them yourself. The ARRL is for radio amateurs, or Hams. But the math works for any frequency in general, and where it doesn't work specifically, like extremely long or short wave radio, the ARRL books tell you, and how to deal. Some folks make their own microwave waveguides. Ham licenses are much easier to get now, since the basic license no longer requires Morse Code, but for the more specialized equipment you need a higher level license, and ability to read code. And the ARRL is the source for much of the info on all that, too! Bill <----- tone deaf and with no sense of timing or rhythm, so was unable to learn enough code to get a license back in the day, but my dad was a Ham, so was around it until I left home. And the last dozen years of my USAF career I was a SATCOM tech & operator, and worked with wideband and HF radio troops, too. If you really get into it, it can be a fun, but potentially expensive hobby, and I have quite enough of those already! [/QUOTE]
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