Here you will learn how to make handmade antennas to watch over-the-air digital TV channels. Imagine that you have a TV set, but no antenna to receive digital TV in your area. Or your digital ...

Greg Manfroi of WIUM/WIUW, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, sent us this idea on a construction method for the shielded-loop AM antenna. Start with the electrical specifications as described ...

Magnetic loop antennas are great if you are limited on space since they are just a potentially small loop of wire. The problem is, they are sharply tuned. You normally have an adjustment capacitor to ...

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AM reception can be very difficult because of the inherent succeptibility AM has to electrical noise and other sources of interference. The built-in antenna in most receivers – a coil and a ferrite ...

Using digital techniques has caused a resurgence of interest in VLF — very low frequency — radio. Thanks to software-defined radio, you no longer need huge coils. However, you still need a suitable ...