There’s a joke in the world of radio that all you need for a HF antenna is a piece of wet string, but the truth is that rudimentary antennas rarely perform well. Random pieces of wire may pull in some ...

It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when you need them. Back in the heyday of shortwave broadcasting, any of us would have given a week’s pay for even a low-end ...

Ken Beckwith is a field engineer with EMF based in Nebraska. Being a hands-on engineer, Ken has done his share of construction over the years. One of his projects was the construction of an ...

Marked "AALCO Folding Loop / Made by AALCO Radio Lab. / Chicago / Reg. U.S. Pat. Office." Antenna was designed for neutrodyne or superheterodyne receivers employing indoor loop antennas. Construction ...