Those are WiFi antennas mostly, and are not "shortwave and the entire mhz band". Not what Paul requested, but good products for their specific "mhz ranges". Most are highly directional. I think Paul seeks a real high gain, all-band, omni-directional antenna. Those are hard to find! :-) Chuck _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Coleman Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 12:10 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] off topic My online source - I buy product from them fairly regularly: http://www.l-com.com/wireless-antenna?cmp=LM1 On Apr 2, 2014, at 11:18 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: Would you be able to suggest a really cool antenna 'that allows shortwave and the entire mhz band'. I prefer Ralink chipsets because they are what I know 'less about' for certain [rtl-61] native support under kernel 2.6.---.[I am a noob]. At this point why not look into a complete separate 'secondary nic' supporting this entire situation. Why have to use usb 'dongle' when one would prefer the entire device except 'Antenna's' to be in the box. Is it a software issue? Thank you, paul g _____ Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 22:57:22 -0500 From: erikerik at gmail.com To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] off topic On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:12 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: The RTL-SDR dongle has a Ralink chipset maybe? So one would get many more channels than just am or fm talk radio by using that device? I pulled up the following website. Yes, they're technically capable of much more than just OTA TV, AM/FM Radio, etc. How easy it is to get that working is up for debate, though. Additionally, for any frequency band you want to receive, you'll need an antenna that's at least an approximate match for that band. You're not going to be able to receive shortwave on the little 700/800MHz antenna that ships with these. :) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140403/ae37857f/attachment-0001.html>