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No Ham License? Listen Anyway In Your Browser (hackaday.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

For local reception, receivers with RTL2832U chips are a cheap option. They are also called RTL-SDR. I have simply been using a long wire as a "random wire antenna". Some of the older dongles also need an upconverter to be able to tune into low HF frequencies:

An upconverter for the RTL-SDR translates low HF frequencies ‘up’ into ones that are receivable by the RTL-SDR. This is a different method to the direct sampling mode used in the V3 dongles to achieve HF reception.

Quoted source: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/a-homebrew-one-transistor-upconverter-for-the-rtl-sdr/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I like my rtlsdr. It's great and super cheap.