{"id":35426,"date":"2019-01-04T08:35:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T12:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35426"},"modified":"2019-01-04T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:57:01","slug":"guest-post-review-of-the-tecsun-an-07-whip-antenna-extender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/guest-post-review-of-the-tecsun-an-07-whip-antenna-extender\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Review of the Tecsun AN-07 whip antenna extender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Nicol\u00e1s Colla, who shares the following review:<\/p>\n

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The Tecsun AN-07 is a whip antenna extender that is approximately 65 cm long. I bought mine from eBay seller Anon-co<\/a>, and it arrived from Hong Kong in approximately twenty days.<\/p>\n

The first thing I noticed with my new antenna is that it probably works only with Tecsun radios.<\/p>\n

The antenna on my Degen DE-13 self-powered radio is too thin for the extension; the one on my Panasonic RF-3500 kitchen radio is too thick. I have another Tecsun antenna, the AN-05, which is a 6 m wire with a clip on the end that can be put on the radio’s aerial. I hung the AN-05 indoors, in the place with the least amount of RFI (just next to a window), and decided to compare the performance of my Tecsun PL-310ET with the default whip, the longwire and my new extension, on shortwave and FM.<\/p>\n

For that, I made a quick scan of the bands with the Easy Tuning Mode (ETM) function of this radio, between 1330 and 1355 UTC. The results were the following:<\/p>\n

Shortwave<\/h3>\n