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Hi all, thanks for the replies. I'm taking another crack at my setup, and I want to give an update and ask for some advice: I connected my twin lead to <a href="">a 9:1 balun</a>, and then to my RTL-SDR dongle. This was recommended on <a...

Last night, I found a SW station that broadcast music with a code on top of it. At the end, the broadcaster alluded to the code containing an image. His listeners must have been using a digital decoder to receive the image. I'm curious to know where to find more broadcasts like this, and what...

It's literally just wrapped on with electrical tape. I was going to solder it on but I wanted to learn about baluns and all this before I committed to that. I have a coax that came with my RTL-SDR, with rabbit ear antennas on the end. I unscrewed the rabbit ears, loosened the screws that used...

So I ended up running an 84 ft wire above my house, because everything else went way off the lot. I have a thin, 40-ft twin lead running to the house — the thickness of an FM antenna. The twin lead connects to a small coax, which connects to an RTL-SDR dongle in my computer. I can get quite a...

Wow, so many replies to this. I only got one notification in my inbox. Anyway, I bought 3 of these! They're great!

OK, so it looks like the UV-5R is highly programmable, if I buy a USB cable and run Chirp. It looks like the UV-5R can broadcast on FRS, but it's against FCC regulations because the wattage is too high. But if I can control the wattage with Chirp, then it seems like I could then bring the device...

I'm looking to get walkie-talkies for my family. I have heard a lot of great things about BaoFengs, and a lot of bad things. Some say the UV-5R is great, but the FCC seems not to like them and I don't really understand them. It seems like they're just portable HAM radios that people are using...

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I think I'm going to have to shorten my wire, as there's no way for me to run 138 feet on my property in a way that's practical. That Ham Radio Secrets site recommended this length, but then I found another source claiming these were the best random wire...

Thanks for the reply. I followed the advice from the links you posted, and from some other sources, and I'll attempt to answer my own questions below: 1. If you have any kind of twin-lead wire you want to use as your antenna, don't tie the ends together. Just splice the twin lead and use a...

Hi there, I have some radio equipment, I live on a hill with big oak trees, and I have a lot of wire. I'd like to set up a strong antenna for receiving, that I can potentially improve later, for transmitting. But I want to get the receving set up immediately. Here's what I have: A Realistic...

Thanks for the advice, vkrules and MOGVZ. I don't have a basement but I did run two wires: One wire is running from the ground screw on the shortwave receiver to my main water pipe, and the other is going up to the roof. They're both simple speaker wires, but this has made my reception way...

Hello, First, I apologize for the newbie questions, and if this isn't an appropriate place to post this, please let me know where to go and I'll post there. I'm pretty new to CB and Shortwave. I have a Realistic TRC-430 that I've connected to an AC adapter, following the manual's instructions...