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Okay, this is very helpful! Again, I really appreciate your patient and well-explained replies.

Good question. I'm using SDR# as well, but have only just started, and am a bit overwhelmed by the options available. Might be helpful if I understood what quadrature sampling is...

Yes. It can accommodate either a single wire or a pair. I've currently got it hooked to an MLA-30+ using one of these gizmos: But I'd like to see if I can get better reception with an outdoor long wire antenna, or by trying different configurations of long wire antenna in the attic, and I'd like...

Okay, great! What's a counterpoise wire? So I need to find a 4:1 balun with a female SMA connector (or the appropriate adapter) to connect to the SDR dongle, and whatever length and AWG size wire for the counterpoise, and that's it? My current single wire antenna is a 32 foot length of 12AWG...

What would that look like, how would I wire it, and how would I go about getting one? I have lots of experience with general electronics fabrication (I built a lot of wiring harnesses for the National Ignition Facility and earned an IPC soldering certification for space applications while at...

I want to run some experiments to determine the effectiveness of various configurations of single wire antennas for my ancient Hallicrafters S-38C. I recently bought an RTL-SDR V3 with the optional small antenna kit. I get great FM reception, which proves that the dongle and antenna are working...

If you look at my avatar, you'll see the almost pristine Hallicrafters S-38C that I inherited in the wake of my brother-in-law's tragic and sudden death from cancer. I'd always been interested in shortwave, but never took the initiative. This changed almost overnight. So now I'm spending an...

You know, I've been giving this a lot of thought, trying to figure out why I find this video so annoying. Yeah, he talks faster than a chihuahua on Adderall, peppers his speech with the same three phrases every 10 seconds, and spends 18 minutes saying essentially the same thing over and over...

I dunno... 18 minutes of randomly twisting dials and jabbering about how the radio needs to be restored because he can't find stations says something. Had he spent that same amount of time Googling "intro to shortwave" he might actually have a fundamental understanding of what he's doing, and...

Had this video pop up in my YouTube feed. The kid has limitless enthusiasm, but zero knowledge, and seemingly no inclination to actually learn anything:

Great! As stated, I'm good with hardware and hands-on stuff, but my understanding of electronics and radio are extremely limited. There is a size discrepancy between the (SMA?) connectors on the "box" and the F-type connector on the adapter. I ordered a pair of these: Hopefully that'll take...

So just connect the antenna's output cable to this ancient F-connector-to-2 wire adapter, via an SMA-to-F-type adapter? (removing the #2 lead to Ground jumper per the instruction manual)? Thanks

Hello, first post, first of many questions. I've got a 1953 Hallicrafters S-38C that's in good working order. Having some disappointing results with reception. I ran a 32 foot long (all the space available) single wire antenna in my attic that runs roughly north-south. I live in California's...