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Listening to baseball on the radio. #WLW 700 kHz via an #Airspy HF+ and a #YouLoop antenna. Transmitter is about 200 miles direct from here, nearly due south along I-75.

There is some noise under the signal but it's very copyable.

Cubs leading the Reds 14-6 bottom of the 7th inning.

Here is a snapshot from #GQRX. I have stations labelled with the baseball team to listen to.

#AirspyHF SDR and a #Youloop mag loop antenna, listening to Pop Shop Radio via WRMI Okeechobee. Show starts 900p Eastern Sundays, on 5950 kHz.

I do not understand loop antennas, but they are fun to experiment with. The lowest noise floor I can get on shortwave (-110 dB) gives me -60 dB signal for WRMI. The same antenna configuration has -55 dB noise at 950 kHz.

I need to find a hula hoop?

Antennas, how do they even work?

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@ishotjr @makemagazine

An HF+ and a antenna is very portable, and gets you very broad frequency receive coverage.

has some fun SDR parts too.

The ARROW club is doing a group build of a "tape measure Yagi" antenna, optimized for 2 meters and very directional. That's a transmit and a receive antenna, and when I get it built I hope to take to to the top of a parking structure and point it at repeaters far away.