low-cost

Banggood is a Chinese vendor of a myriad of items. (A few years ago I bought a tri-band HT, Bluetooth-programable, to use on Allstar, and it's been great.) I see there are a number of IC shortwave receivers that might be interesting or fun to play with. The "SI4732 Pocket Radio Receiver...

I'm wondering what type of cheap alternative there is to a log periodic antenna... something that's broadband, directional, high-gain, but low-cost too? It occurred to me in looking at log periodics how much they resemble regular 'ol TV antennas. I'm not so naive to think I could put a TV...