>The answer to this question depends entirely upon the radio make and model. > >In general: if a good quality portable made during the last 20 years has a 3.5mm antenna jack you can be pretty sure that there is diode protection dear the antenna contacts. This keeps the radio from frying is a static discharge is produced by the antenna. A whip antenna may not have this protection. > >Having an antenna jack does not mean the radio can be used with all antennas. For instance: less expensive portables may overload with random wire antennas longer than the typical 24 ft. (7 meter) long reel antennas. Again, this depends upon the radio. > >An antenna plugged into an antenna jack will make more reliable electrical contact than an antenna clipped to the whip antenna. The clip will be easier to move (producing noise). A plug will withstand more tension on the wire without letting go. > >If you have the choice of using a clip or an antenna jack with the radio and antenna: go with the jack.
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The answer to this question depends entirely upon the radio make and model.
In general: if a good quality portable made during the last 20 years has a 3.5mm antenna jack you can be pretty sure that there is diode protection dear the antenna contacts. This keeps the radio from frying is a static discharge is produced by the antenna. A whip antenna may not have this protection.
Having an antenna jack does not mean the radio can be used with all antennas. For instance: less expensive portables may overload with random wire antennas longer than the typical 24 ft. (7 meter) long reel antennas. Again, this depends upon the radio.
An antenna plugged into an antenna jack will make more reliable electrical contact than an antenna clipped to the whip antenna. The clip will be easier to move (producing noise). A plug will withstand more tension on the wire without letting go.
If you have the choice of using a clip or an antenna jack with the radio and antenna: go with the jack.
Sure. If your Tecsun is like my Grundig or most other portable SW radios I'm aware of, its antenna connector is just a 3.5mm jack. I'm going to guess that the connector coming off of your discone is a PL-259. To adapt it, you'll need to go from an SO-239 to BNC male adapter, and then from there a BNC female to 3.5mm plug adapter. Preferably with some sort of BNC pigtail in between so the heavy feedline isn't stressing the connector on the radio.
The bigger question here though is what you are expecting to hear on your discone? It's a VHF/UHF antenna and not optimized for shortwave reception. You'll likely have much better results just soldering a long length of wire to a 3.5mm connector, plugging that into your radio, and tossing the other end up into a tree. if you have a few extra bucks kicking around, you can get the same thing on Amazon with the wire on a handy reel for tangle free storage! You'll spend more on adapters to get your discone to work and I can pretty much guarantee this will work better.
Are the antennas like this one fairly effective? I have a sony wide range anntena extention which is a longish wire with a whip antenna on the end. It doesn't help clean up the signal much and wonder if this wire would be different somehow.
Welcome to the hobby! To improve reception, you need to improve your antenna. For short wave listening (SWL), a long wire is a good start. If you radio allows for an external antenna, you might consider something like this.
These reel-up random wire antennas work very well. The length is limited to 23' to avoid overloading inexpensive portables. Sangean ANT-60 and the Kaito T-1 are just about the same thing. I use my ANT-60 a lot for a travel antenna.
https://www.amazon.com/Sangean-ANT-60-Short-Wave-Antenna/dp/B000023VW2
https://www.amazon.com/Kaito-T-1-Radio-antenna/dp/B00066Z9XG
Lucky you. With the Eton Grundig Edition Satellit you need not limit yourself to a short random wire. You can use any length of wire, the longer the better. You need to solder a 3.5mm mono plug to the end of the wire. Buy several for experimenting.
https://www.showmecables.com/972
I like to use ordinary stranded and insulated copper hook-up wire for my outdoor shortwave antennas. I like 18AWG but larger gauge 16 AWG works fine, too. I use smaller 22 AWG for special projects, too.
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You can clip 10-20 feet of any old wire to the antenna and throw it out a window. That can drastically improve reception.
Then just pull the wire back inside when finished listening, and no one's the wiser to your 'stealth' shortwave radio listening station.
EDIT - Here's just the thing, a retractable 'reel' antenna with a clip for just such a setup. Under 20 bucks :
https://www.amazon.com/Sangean-ANT-60-Short-Wave-Antenna/dp/B000023VW2
Here's a video review of it :
Have you tried the Sangean ANT-60 reel antenna? Not a whip but it works. Here is a less expensive version. Both are 23 ft. long (7 meters) and can be clipped to the telescopic whip or plugged into a 3.5mm antenna jack.
If you really want a big whip antenna I made one with a 20 ft. Shakespeare Wonderpole: a cheap telescopic fishing rod. I just ran light 22 AWG hook-up wire up the the eyelet at the end of the pole. You will need to devise some way of your own mount the antenna. The Wonderpole isn't made any more but this 20' crappie rod is very similar.
I like BBC News. Haven’t caught it on SWR yet though.
But I did buy a 23’ (7m) long wire antennas I’m gonna try.
A good shortwave antenna is usually very long. See https://www.hamradiosecrets.com/shortwave-antenna.html for more discussion. A simple approach would be to use any of the 3 metal antennas + add something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Sangean-ANT-60-Short-Wave-Antenna/dp/B000023VW2/ to the end to get some length.
Broadcast FM should be no problem with the silver extendable antenna.
You may be able to pick up some UHF/VHF using the longer of the two black antennas with the curly section. The shorter black antenna is probably tuned for 1090 MHz (e.g., ADSB). If the thicker antennas you have are the same as these: https://www.amazon.com/NooElec-RaTLSnake-M5-3-Antenna-Software/dp/B073JWDXMG/ then the fat antenna with 3 rings is intended for 700MHz-1200MHz and the other fat antenna is intended for 1100MHz-1800MHz.
I have the tivdio-115, which is the same radio just the company that makes it changed names.
I love the utility of that radio, you find something interesting you can record it on to a micro sd card. It is great.
As for the Ham band, I believe they use USB and LSB, that doesn't have that feature. which for a radio in that price range is normal. The reception is good, I like the AM and shortwave. Look online for all the features of the radio. I find the instructions leave out a bunch of stuff. like if you have presets you can't manually look around and the scan is on the play button or something. they may have updated the instructions.
If you like that radio the other favourite radio of mine is the Tecsun pl-310 no recording feature BUT the reception is great and it has the port for an external antenna so you can something like this.
I am relatively new to this my self so as far as stations go I am trying to learn what band is what. just scan around and see what you get. If you want to know what you are listing to try https://shortwaveschedule.com/ it tells me what is on now.
you will find a lot of preachy shit. brother rg stairs is the funniest but around 6000 is radio Havana, they are not talking about god and play music sometimes.
enjoy your new radio!