Just playing with the user interfaces without actually knowing what he is doing - don't waste your time.

I returned my unit because there was nothing on the AM radio band but static. The replacement has the same problem - nothing but static on AM radio band. Am i doing something wrong?

I own both. The Rspdx is better than Nooelec. I don't buy from Nooelec anymore because of support issues.

Hi Sir. I picked up another Globetraveler that's in really good physical condition. I cleaned the heck out of all the contacts with Deoxit. Everything works except the short wave spread bands. It's silent with not even contact crackling. Have any ideas?

What an expensive way of listening to communist propaganda, evangelical bullsh*t and general static.

Radio Topics: Can you run it with a cord that goes into your wall outlet instead of using batteries?

I've been into radios for 50 years. I bought one of these and it is junk. You have to be a rocket scientist to use it. I have an old tube radio and it is superior to this piece of Chinese junk. It is a waste of money. You have to have the user manual with you at all times. Very confusing. Not user friendly at all.

Very helpful, the Icom manual suffers gaps for my thought process that your video helped to bridge for me. Very happy with my R8600. Everything's easy when you know how. 73 de KT1R Lou in WV grid FM09

Thanks a bunch for this

What antenna are you using this demonstration?

Just ordered one of these off of Amazon with their Black Friday sale. Can't wait to get it and play around with it. I know you can listen to anything you want these days over the Internet, but there is something magical and fun about tuning to far away stations over the airwaves.

Very well explained, even guys like me, with no electronics background, got it very well. Most part of smith chart explanations I saw before didn't explained it specifically on VNA use case. Thank you 🙏

Excellent explanation. Easier to comprehend than a turboencabulator. You have a new subscriber. I look forward to future videos.

Nice work

While this was somewhat of an interesting video this really was not a fair comparison. Comparing a stick, barely modified from its original use as a DVB-T receiver, to a specifically designed SDR receiver is not a good comparison point - even if you are using an extremely broadbanded and poorly filtered transverter to compare operation far below where the stick SDR was designed to operate. At ~$220 for the SDRplay and less than $100 for the NooElec setup for the new SDR user, casual user, or even a regular user looking for some level of flexibility the price is going to be far more important than a few heterodynes. Comparing the NooElec to an RTLSDR with another transverter would have been a much fairer comparison.

I used to have a S40B. I sold it, wish I hadn’t.

Bigger is not always better looks and sounds a lot like my Eton G3 globe traveller very good thought about getting a big all knobs and whistles table top receiver but seeing your tests I think I'll stick with the G3 and save my money

You are a genius....was going nuts with this bug, swapping cables, antennas etc......problem now fixed with your help.....KD2MNZ

split...

mine wont transmit faulty TX cable inside

Thank you!

You should use the same software, SDRuno is far superior than the other one. I have both RSP and RTLSDR and differences are very small using SDRconsole with is in my opinion far better than Sdruno.

Many many thanks for this!!!!

which one is better on am band xhdata d 808 vs eton elite executive

Thanks a lot. 73

Helpful

Thank you. I had much the same results on a no brand discone.

This is a very good amplifier it seems. Thanks for the demo.

When listing to LW or MW , select that range in the band panel to enable the high dynamic range feature to get the best signal quality.

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Would like to see your analysis with the preamp at the base of your antenna.

I got my Executive Satellite in an estate sale grab box for a dollar (lucky me). The PDF manual was no way near as helpful as this video. Thank you! Now if I can just learn how to hunt my local stations in Southern Tennessee. Where is your buy me a coffee button?

Excellent. Thank you

So you had split on? 🙈

I’m curious if you have tested it receiving cw signals. Can the bandwidth be set narrow enough? Thanks for your review - it was very helpful. John - WA4RXO

Thank you Sir.

It was fascinating to connect the VNA to a manual antenna tuner in line to the antenna, you can twiddle the knobs and see the SWR waves go up and down as you manipulate the inductor and capacitors. I’m new at this and never used a manual antenna tuner before this. It would have been frustrating to operate the antenna tuner blind.

Solved my issue thank you.

Can you imagine being in West Germany in the 60's and 70's? They were smack dab in the middle of the shortwave broadcast universe, in those days! I was in West Virginia at that time and shortwave was absolutely fascinating, listening to the outside world.

Maybe open the radio and look for a pwr adjustment pot.

good presentation

I have a Mohican in great shape that was my husband's. What would the value of this be and is there a market for these?

While it's true that the RSPdx is almost twice the price of the Nooelec sdr+upconverter, the RSPdx has the ability to connect 3 antennas. I would also prefer having 1 piece of gear rather than 2, all else being equal.

Anything that amplifies noise at the same rate as signal is effectively just extra signal loss. Spend the money on a better antenna

I bought an S-40B with some good potential off eBay about 10 or 12 years ago and spent some time recapping, aligning and generally getting it into what I consider excellent condition. I wound up replacing the toggle switches, one of which was broken. Amazingly, these were still available in their original form. Alignment is an art form. I have spent countless hours aligning everything from S-38s to Hammarlund SP-600s (48 adjustments in the RF section alone). My feeling is that dials were designed using a prototype chassis. Given the vagaries of parts control, they just don’t fit all the production units very well. Oscillator points should be adjusted about 10- to 20-percent in from each end of the band to get the best fit throughout the band. The frequencies specified in the alignment instructions should serve only as starting points. Once the main tuning was aligned as well as possible, I developed frequency graphs on the bandspread logging scale. An outboard crystal calibrator is helpful for this. I restrung the tuning and bandspread dials using 50-lb test, microfilament, braided fishing line. This is much better than regular dial cord, as it provides exceptionally smooth tuning with minimal slack or backlash. The bandspread on the S-40B lacks the nice flywheel present on the original S-40. My unit is also setup to plugin an optional outboard Heathkit GD-125 Q-multiplier. This improves selectivity. Many years ago, a ham buddy taught me how to tune single sideband using combinations of the sensitivity and pitch controls, and CW and AVC on/off switches. For tuning SSB as well as narrow bandwidths produced by the Q-multiplier, the main drawback of these old radios is stability. They drift significantly during warmup, and somewhat less thereafter. All things considered, the S-40, S-40A and S-40B were excellent cost-performance tradeoff options for hams and SWLs 70 years ago. Yours, sir, is a beauty and must give you lasting satisfaction in its restoration.

Great information, got my eye on the latest one of these this helps in the decision to buy one.

Thank you, much appreciated and very clearly explained.

Thanks for these videos! I am seeking an RF amplifier that can input 250mw and boost to 3 watts+. Frequency range is 470-480mhz. Do you have any recommendations? Do you take on custom work? Thanks!

Why do so many of these radios still have muting while tuning when we know it can be disabled? Surely the manufacturers know that most shortwave listeners hate it when radios do this.

I know this is 1 year old but I hope you see my comment. Thank you very much for this video. I had the same issue you had. I did what you said and it fixed this problem. My SWR hardly flickers now. I had to make sure the split band was within the ham bands and I also turned the split function off. Both had to be done in my case. I have a random wire 35.5 ft antenna with 9:1 unun and common mode choke on the feedline near the antenna and transceiver. My antenna runs along the wall in my room. I know it is very compromised but now I know my SWR is under control and I might have a chance to talk to someone with the SWR under control. I am handicapped with arthritis and have a heart issue, that's why I have it inside. Makes it a little easier than outside. Thank you very much again for this video. It helped me very much. I have had some strong signals come through on my indoor antenna, too.