Your little portable shortwave radio has a useless antenna.
Attic shortwave antenna.
Even then a small indoor loop antenna installed temporarily out on the balcony when you need it is better than an indoor one.
All it takes is a very fine wire.
Install a 9 1 unun at the antenna end of the coax.
Here are the main types of commercially made indoor shortwave antennas from the least performing to the best performer.
Shortwave antenna plans and links category is a curation of 54 web resources on rhombic antenna for shortwave radio broadcasting echelon log beverages hula loop antenna.
The ge 33692 attic mount hd antenna is a notable example of an antenna specially designed for placement in the attic.
Oh it s fine for fm but shortwave antennas need to be at least fifty feet long to be useful.
Indoor or attic antennas have several advantages.
I can t put up some big ugly antenna.
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Page 11 indoor multiwire shortwave antennas.
Gallery of radios with shortwave radios capable of receiving shortwave broadcasts those with a frequency of about 3 to 30 mhz or wavelength between about 10 and 100 meters.
This antenna spans a tuning range spanning 3 5 mhz through 40 mhz and thus covers 80 10 meters on the amateur radio bands all international shortwave bands plus the 11 meter cb bands.
The indoor shortwave antenna is a compromise when you cannot install an outdoor antenna.
It can run out the window to a tree or stapled along under the eaves or even in the attic.
Unun stands for unbalanced coaxial line to unbalanced antenna.
This antenna has all the reception power of an outdoor antenna but features a curved metal frame of reflectors that are designed for fitting easily into smaller attic spaces.
Made for enhanced high definition reception the ge pro outdoor attic mount antenna optimizes your free digital channels in full 1080p hd.
The antenna comes with a 3 coaxial cable to attach the antenna bnc output to a so 259 pl 259 input of your receiver most receivers.
The near vertical portion of wire 20 ft from the attic shortwave antenna to the receiver could pick up vertically polarized electrostatic interference.
1 no rain no corrosion no wind damage 2 little possibility of lightning strike 3 no problems with property association communists and 4 no need for trees or other external supports.
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