This article introduces an FM radio receiver solution that enables the antenna to be integrated or embedded inside the portable device enclosure, making the headphone cable optional.

This reduces the number of antenna elements required compared to ring-style designs, which require half-wavelength spacing, hence more elements, to cover the full FM band.

The University of Kent’s hackerspace, TinkerSoc, recently had a talk on software-defined radio using an incredibly inexpensive USB TV tuner. Of course this is nothing new to Hackaday readers,… ...

Delivering a 5-dB better sensitivity and a 25% smaller footprint than the company’s RadioAnt, the Activv antenna integrates directly inside a handset and provides a combination of FM reception ...

How to Make an FRS Radio Antenna. The Family Radio Service, or FRS, is a system allowing short-range communications between friends and/or family. The system uses frequency modulation, or FM ...

Together with a good directional antenna this high performance two-stage antenna amplifier for the VHF FM broadcast band will enable you to capture far removed (DX) stations. Alternatively, it will ...

To my knowledge, this is the only way parasitics can be used with a non-directional antenna; all other uses of parasitics would make that same antenna “directional” and it would have to be licensed as ...

Engineering consultant David Maxson, a principal with Isotrope LLC, saw Jack Roland’s submission about a mast on a pivot in our Nov. 7 column. The article reminded David of a translator in Newport, ...

Soon more people will be hearing Fordham University’s WFUV-FM NY (90.7, wfuv.org). The noncomm public radio station will be working to improve listener reception by upgrading its main antenna ...