{"id":54852,"date":"2022-11-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=54852"},"modified":"2022-12-03T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T13:30:11","slug":"giuseppe-upcycles-and-improves-a-homebrew-mw-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/giuseppe-upcycles-and-improves-a-homebrew-mw-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuseppe upcycles and improves a homebrew MW antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor, Giuseppe Morl\u00e8 (IZ0GZW)<\/a>, who shares the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Thomas and Friends of SWLing Post …<\/p>\n

This is Giuseppe Morl\u00e8. As always, I try recycling what I have and improving upon antennas I’ve built in the past. This is one way we radio lovers can experiment. Many years ago, I made an antenna only for medium waves; by adding a circuit, I can now listen to short waves.<\/p>\n

I took advantage of a small frame that I recovered from an old commercial FM \/ AM stereo receiver by removing its coils for medium waves and I wound around it only two coils sufficient to have a frequency range from 3.5 to 18 MHz.<\/p>\n

I remember that the antenna in question also receives medium waves as it was born.<\/p>\n

I chose this small frame because I wanted everything to be small in order to carry this compact antenna everywhere.<\/p>\n

Unlike my other projects for SW and MW, which have a cable that carries the SW signal to the receiver, this time I used the induction that is created around one end of the loop, which I spiraled to get inside the stylus of my Tecsun PL-660 and which then transfers the signal to the receiver.<\/p>\n

I did some tests on my balcony the day after a strong storm and I noticed that the propagation was absent but I still wanted to make sure that everything was working.<\/p>\n