I would seriously consider an active E-Field antenna.? I built and used one while on the third (top) floor of an apartment in an extremely large complex.? It worked quite well from VLF through 20 or so MHz.? Activity at the time above 20 MHz was non-existent.? If you don't want to build your own, you can pay (too much) from a number of suppliers on the www.
On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 11:25 PM Paul Egan <paul@...> wrote:
I have a 10th floor balcony and would like a no tune solution for an rtl-sdr v3 with an upconverter.
I've tried a miniwhip from aliexpress. It was pretty deaf.
The youloop looks interesting but I think it needs a more sensitive SDR and using an LNA with the rtl-sdr v3 only elevates the noise from what I understand.
I have a homebrew magnetic loop for transmitting between 17m and 40m but tuning is cumbersome and I would like to receive below 7Mhz.
So what would you install to get a decent signal from 0.5 to 30Mhz? Some sort of passive loop?
