Posts Tagged ‘ FM ’

Improve FM and shortwave reception with a do-it-yourself radio antenna

21st July 2010 | 0 Comments

Almost all radio listening can be improved with the use of an outside antenna. A radio antenna grabs radio wave energy out of the air, then relays it to the radio receiver which amplifies the signal to an audible level.
AM radio reception usually relies upon an antenna built into the “innards” of the radio. Although [...]


Listening to shortwave radio broadcasts from around the world is informative and fun

15th June 2010 | 0 Comments

The voice from the radio was clear, yet was speaking in an unknown language. Tuning in another frequency brought the staccato ditz and dashes of a Morse code transmission. A little more tuning brought in an understandable yet noticeably foreign English broadcast. If you can recall the first shortwave radio broadcast you ever heard, you [...]


Buying your radio

30th June 2009 | 0 Comments

Now that you’ve decided that you want to tune in the world, which radio do you want to buy? A good quality portable radio can do double duty, serving as your AM-FM receiver to receive regular commercial radio broadcasts, as well as picking up shortwave broadcasts. The small portable set which I have does just [...]