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Dear EU customers, Due to changes in VAT policy for distant sales in EU from 1st July 2021 all goods that are delivered to physical persons in EU are due to VAT charges. The VAT which you pay at our … Continued

There are two new videos on the SDRplay site where the AAA-1 was tested in loop mode and compared with other commercial loop antenna. A dual channel RSPduo was used for this purpose. This is also a demonstration how a … Continued

Due to efforts of Mr. Rainer Kamenz DE3RKP there are German language translations to some of my articles: Breitband-Aktivantenne mit kleiner Magnetschleife Experimenteller Vergleich kleiner Breitbandloops Signalempfang mit kleiner Magnetschleifenantenne Empfangen mit kleinen aktiven Breitbandschleifen im NDB-Band Horizontal montierte kleine … Continued

For those who have an access to a 3-d printer: – Chavdar LZ1ABC has a project for a compartment for the Control Board of AAA-1. Go to https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4095697 to download the 3d design file. Many thanks Chav – Mike G4RAA … Continued

This is for the people like me who intend to use their SDRs with their transceiver as one integrated unit. For a long time (from 2008) I have been using a homemade solution for antenna switching and audio path switching. … Continued

These days the time of the arrival of the parcels becomes unpredictable. In EU between 5 days and more than a month. In the rest of the world it is ????? . The tracking also does not work always by … Continued

By our fault for, some time, part of documentation was missing in https://active-antenna.eu/amplifier-kit/technical-documentation/ . The missing file is “Model AAA-1C. Addendum to AAA-1B documentation” It is now available at https://active-antenna.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/aaa-1c_addendum_11.pdf . Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards, LZ1AQ

A combination of a small magnetic loop and small electrical dipole or ground plane (GP), both vertically placed in a single point is widely used as a simple direction finding antenna. How to build a wideband version with active small … Continued

An Application note is added : http://active-antenna.eu/application-notes/filters-to-reject-strong-input-signals/ The AAA-1 amplifier has a very good dynamic range – it is higher than the most RF preamplifiers used in the best transceivers. But it is wideband and there are no filters at … Continued

We must inform our customers that we will not send parcels during Christmas and New Year holidays. The last parcels were sent on 18 Dec 2018. The next date for dispatch will be on 3-d of Jan 2019. We wish … Continued