It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when you need them. Back in the heyday of shortwave broadcasting, any of us would have given a week’s pay for even a low-end ...

Ken Beckwith is a field engineer with EMF based in Nebraska. Being a hands-on engineer, Ken has done his share of construction over the years. One of his projects was the construction of an ...

In our previous column we discussed Ron Schacht’s inexpensive EAS receiver idea. Now I hear from Ken Beckwith that he is building and selling antennas to feed your EAS receiver. We shared a ...

While we can’t argue that FM has superior audio quality and digital streaming allows even higher quality in addition to worldwide access, there’s still something magic about hearing a weak and fading ...

Yes, it's easier to cram a functional FM antenna into that little roof bump intended mainly for cell and XM reception. AM antenna is harder to do in limited space if you want decent reception. But it ...