Hi all,
What indoor antenna would you recommend (active or other type) that would cover hf/vh/uhf?
Regards, Kes m0pkz
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| Author: | m0pkz [ Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Indoor antenna for ftl sdr? Your recomendations?! |
Hi all, What indoor antenna would you recommend (active or other type) that would cover hf/vh/uhf? Regards, Kes m0pkz
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| Author: | G7 KJF [ Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Indoor antenna for ftl sdr? Your recomendations?! |
A desktop discone would cover most of the frequencies you need but keep your expectations very low especially on hf, you’ll likely get a really high level of noise. The MLA 30+ loops on eBay work a lot better on hf than any discone would and are a pretty thin loop that hides easily. |
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| Author: | G0NIG [ Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Indoor antenna for ftl sdr? Your recomendations?! |
I used to use a YouLoop antenna, fairly inexpensive. It’s a passive antenna and has good immunity to localised noise. Worked reasonably well on VHF. When compared with another popular indoor antenna, the MLA-30+, it had better SNR especially on MF and LF. I could easily resolve many NDB’s between 280KHz and 500KHz where as the MLA just produced noise. Now that I’ve got back into transmitting I’ve stuck with a small broadband loop (MFJ-1886TR) for receiving and use a simple non-resonant wire fed with a 9:1 UnUn for transmit. |
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