{"id":14239,"date":"2015-08-01T07:37:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T11:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14239"},"modified":"2015-08-01T07:37:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T11:37:31","slug":"dr-phils-radio-articles-portable-sdr-and-pocket-dx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/dr-phils-radio-articles-portable-sdr-and-pocket-dx\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Phil’s radio articles: portable SDR and pocket DX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RTL-SDR-001\"<\/a>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Dr. Phil, recently contacted me regarding a collection of articles he’s written about DXing and radio modifications.<\/p>\n

His site<\/a>\u00a0actually has a number of useful articles that I’ll plan to convert to future posts, with his permission.<\/p>\n

\"Sony<\/a>I asked Dr. Phil for links to two of his most popular publications. He replied:<\/p>\n

My two big recent articles are shown below. One is about “Pocket Radio DX”: using under-$20 radios to DX (started in 2003).\u00a0Click here to download as a PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The other is about using an $18 NooElec TV-tuner<\/a> as a MW and shortwave receiver. Click here to download as a PDF.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing these, Dr. Phil!<\/p>\n

I actually have a\u00a0 Sony ICF-S10MK2<\/a>, which I consider to be a\u00a0capable and useful little\u00a0AM\/FM receiver for the sub $20 price.\u00a0I’ve also been very tempted to purchase an RTL-SDR dongle,\u00a0so I\u00a0may go ahead and\u00a0bite the bullet on\u00a0one of the NooElec SDR dongles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Dr. Phil, recently contacted me regarding a collection of articles he’s written about DXing and radio modifications. His site\u00a0actually has a number of useful articles that I’ll plan to convert to future posts, with his permission. I asked Dr. Phil for links to two of his most popular publications. He replied: My […]<\/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":[8,3,139,26,43,158,3727],"tags":[4038,1031,2169,149,4039,2858,4040],"class_list":["post-14239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-radio-modifications","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","category-ultralight-dx","tag-dr-phil","tag-dxing","tag-home-brew","tag-mods","tag-nooelec-rtl-sdr","tag-rtl-sdr","tag-sony-icf-s10mk2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3HF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24309,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/north-american-and-european-medium-wave-signals-into-oxford-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":14239,"position":0},"title":"North American and European medium wave signals into Oxford, UK","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"February 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi there, I've been rather preoccupied of late, initially with the brilliant Tecsun PL-310ET and latterly with the even more brilliant Eton Satellit. 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