{"id":12910,"date":"2015-04-04T08:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12910"},"modified":"2015-04-04T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:33:17","slug":"london-shortwave-updates-his-portable-sdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/london-shortwave-updates-his-portable-sdr\/","title":{"rendered":"London Shortwave updates his portable SDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/London-Shortwave-Portable-SDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12912\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/London-Shortwave-Portable-SDR.jpg\" alt=\"London-Shortwave-Portable-SDR\" width=\"650\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/London-Shortwave-Portable-SDR.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/London-Shortwave-Portable-SDR-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"http:\/\/london-shortwave.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">London Shortwave<\/a>, has updated his portable SDR setup to achieve a lower noise floor by implementing a Wellbrook UMB130 balun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/london-shortwave.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/portable-sdr-update.html?m=0\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read his post.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post contributor, London Shortwave, has updated his portable SDR setup to achieve a lower noise floor by implementing a Wellbrook UMB130 balun. Click here to read his post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,3196,43,158],"tags":[2704,3195,4087],"class_list":["post-12910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","tag-london-shortwave","tag-portable-sdr","tag-software-defined-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3me","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10293,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/designing-a-truly-portable-sdr\/","url_meta":{"origin":12910,"position":0},"title":"Designing a truly portable SDR","author":"Thomas","date":"July 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post reader, London Shortwave, is working on a portable SDR (software defined radio) system based on his Toshiba Encore 8\" Windows tablet, FunCube Dongle Pro+, and supported by the excellent SDR# application. Today, he shared this photo of his entire kit, including his comments. 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Grabbing the grey line hour on the 49 mb. Listening to Radio Fana!\" Wow! \u00a0I love this go kit! 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