Point taken, although who says a person cannot run 3 nics in the box. and obtain proper connectivity. /wlan0 /400MHZ/ABOVE /Shortwave/HF/LF/ULF ideal situation.. I want to buy antennas. Thank you for your time, paul g > From: erikerik at gmail.com > Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 02:04:02 -0500 > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] off topic > > Paul, what Chuck and Ryan are getting at is this: there is no such thing as a "magic" antenna that works great for all frequencies. This is fundamental physics. To give some perspective, 400MHz signals have a wavelength of around 70cm. Shortwave signals, and other HF/LF/ULF signals have wavelengths over 100 meters long. An antenna that works well for one of those will not work for the other. > > So, pick which bands you're interested in and buy or make and antenna. Especially at the longer end of things, it's trivial to make an Rx-only antenna with a spool of wire. > > > On Apr 2, 2014, at 23:18, 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? > _______________________________________________ > 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/b679d0b1/attachment.html>