{"id":50920,"date":"2021-11-18T07:29:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T11:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=50920"},"modified":"2021-11-18T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T11:29:20","slug":"giuseppes-homemade-magic-tablet-antenna-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/giuseppes-homemade-magic-tablet-antenna-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuseppe&#8217;s Homemade &#8220;Magic Tablet&#8221; Antenna System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Giuseppe-Magic-Tablet-Antenna-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50921\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Giuseppe-Magic-Tablet-Antenna-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Giuseppe-Magic-Tablet-Antenna-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Giuseppe-Magic-Tablet-Antenna-1-300x174.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Giuseppe-Magic-Tablet-Antenna-1-1024x595.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Giuseppe-Magic-Tablet-Antenna-1-768x446.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Giuseppe-Magic-Tablet-Antenna-1-624x362.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/giuseppe-morle-iz0gzw\/\">Giuseppe Morl\u00e8<\/a>, who writes:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dear Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is Giuseppe Morl\u00e8, from Formia central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I built this &#8220;Magic Tablet. during a rainy afternoon to test various portables I have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The tablet is composed of 2 separate circuits: one for the short waves, a single coil along the entire perimeter of the tablet, and another with 2 ferrites wrapped around 36 turns of telephone cable for the medium waves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The heart of the system is a 1050 pf variable capacitor with its old wheel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To listen to medium wave I have to exclude the short wave loop with a switch on the loop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I also added another small switch to connect it to a capacitor for more or less capacity, but this I will do later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I can test my portables like this because the tablet tunes very well from 500 kHz to 18 MHz. I spent very little to make all this as it is all recycled stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You can see the first tests on the balcony of my house with a Tecsun H-501 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/B9QDd3qHU_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via my YouTube channel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B9QDd3qHU_0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Note:<\/strong> this video is in Italian, but you can turn on closed captions and have it translate into the language of your choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As I always say, I am not a technician and I have little manual skills in building things, not having a proper laboratory. When I get an idea, I put it on paper and I start to find all the materials and then see if they work. Not all of us are of the experts in electronics&#8211;what drives me is a passion for radio listening. Now being retired, I have more time to devote to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thanks to you and hello to the whole <em>SWLing Post<\/em> community &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">73. Giuseppe Morl\u00e8 (IZ0GZW)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I love this, Giuseppe! What a clever all-in-one portable antenna system for your shortwave radios. I especially love the fact you were able to create all of this from parts you have at your home. You&#8217;ve got a winning attitude, too: build and experiment!\u00a0 Thank you for sharing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Giuseppe Morl\u00e8, who writes: Dear Thomas, This is Giuseppe Morl\u00e8, from Formia central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea, I built this &#8220;Magic Tablet. during a rainy afternoon to test various portables I have. The tablet is composed of 2 separate circuits: one for the short waves, a single coil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4199,373,3607,3194,627,433,3,43],"tags":[5791,4358,8498,9544],"class_list":["post-50920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-am","category-antennas","category-guest-posts","category-how-to","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-giuseppe-morle-iz0gzw","tag-homebrew","tag-homebrew-antennas","tag-magic-tablet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dfi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55052,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/video-giuseppes-cassette-loop-on-the-shortwaves-with-induction\/","url_meta":{"origin":50920,"position":0},"title":"Video: Giuseppe&#8217;s &#8220;Cassette Loop&#8221; on the shortwaves with induction","author":"Thomas","date":"December 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Giuseppe Morl\u00e8 (IZ0GZW), who writes: Dear Thomas and Friends of the SWLing Post, I'm Giuseppe Morl\u00e8 from central Italy, Formia on the Tyrrhenian Sea... 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