If all you want to do is receive and you have a budget of under $100, this looks like it would be a nice portable option. You can build your own loop and loop-like antennas, of course. Some of ...

is an excellent portable receiving antenna, and if we’re being honest, something we might also consider in our own shack. Continue reading “A Simple But Effective Receiving Loop Antenna” → ...

An introduction to properties of individual antennas and arrays of antennas. Retarded potentials, dipoles of arbitrary length, radiation pattern, gain, directivity, radiation resistance. The loop ...

such as its receiving sensitivity and noise figure, are directly a function of optimizing the antenna's impedance match and radiation efficiency, independently of whether a dipole, monopole, or ...