Hi Paul,

Congratulations on hearing WDHP!! That's a great catch. I heard them once while I lived in the Houston area, but here in Okieland, they're one tough station to hear. I'd almost forgotten about the X band...been a long time since I even tuned that high on the band.

Keep up the great DX!

Kirk Allen
Ponca City, OK

This is 4 feet across and about 7 high from the bottom of the base to the top of the loop.

While at the Ten-Tec Factory Hamfest in Sevierville,TN ,I purchased a homebrew loop from Chuck Roswell,K2MGL of Georgia for $20.The loop does not cover the entire band but does cover over 50%.He says it can be modified for the whole band.It consists of a wooden pole which fits into a wooden turntable type base.It has 8 wooden bars radiating out from the wooden square center piece.The receiving element consists of 4 loops of coaxial cable.There is a metal box at the base of the loop elements with a variable tuning capacitor inside the metal box and a small tuning knob on top of the box.The loop tunes 995-1760 kHz.Chuck,K2MGL made the loop himself.He told me he used to work for Trans World Radio from both Bonaire,Netherlands Antilles and from Monaco.While with the Bonaire station he says he helped maintain the 500kw mw transmitter there.
You can look him up on the qrz.com call sign search box to read his story.

I logged this station tonight 9/28/2011.I believe this is a new one for me.Here are the details:
WTAB 1370 Tabor City,N.C. 2205-2210 EDT good signal on tune in fading to poor.Country Music ,WTAB i.d. followed by more country.Not bad for 109 watts. Heard on Eton E-100 and homebrew 4 foot loop.
Carl DeWhitt, KI5SF
Maryville,TN.

RE:

Hi

1377.0 TWR Gavar, ARM, Farsi 1715 UT.

Armenia is my 39th nation on the ultralight Tecsun PL-380.
Tough to pull out underneath France Info Lille.

Patrice

Hi Patrice,

Nice catch on Armenia for your 39th nation. I have a feeling we were hearing that one here as well a few weeks ago when solar conditions were better. Could hear something in Arabic or Farsi under France but couldn't catch an ID on it.


Allen Willie
Bristol's Hope, Newfoundland

I caught this one a homebrew loop I bought for $20 at the Ten Tec Hamfest in Sevierville,TN.I will post a description of this loop later.
WILB 1060 Canton,Ohio
0757-0800 EDT,9/27/2011
"Truth Matters" program from Living Bread Radio.
I.D. as WILB AM 1060,Canton ,? Radio for Northeast Ohio.
Eton E-100 and homebrew 4 foot loop.poor.FCC says 15KW.new.

Hello All,

Received from Production Director (and Breakfast Announcer) David Sharp
was a very welcome verification letter (and two bumper stickers) from
585-2WEB, a 10 kw station in Bourke, Australia. This DU station was
received on August 15th at the "Rockwork" ocean viewpoint cliff at Cape
Falcon on the NW Oregon coast, with a PL-380 Ultralight radio and new
8" diameter FSL antenna. To my knowledge, it was the first reception of
2WEB on Ultralight radios in North America (John Bryant and I never had
a trace of it during joint DXpeditions at Grayalnd, WA).

David mentioned that mine was the first report that he has received
from the USA during the 12 years that he's worked there, and that the
only other report that 2WEB has received from North America during that
time was one from Alberta (maybe Nigel?). Unlike many other stations
2WEB and David (an avid DXer who once lived in Florida) seem very
motivated to promptly answer reception reports, so those who have heard
their music programs (classic rock, soft rock, country, etc.) shouldn't
hesitate to report reception. David also keeps close records of each
song played, so it was easy for him to confirm my reception both last
month, and in July of last year (at Seaside, OR). By an amazing
coincidence, he is also a current member of our Ultralightdx Yahoo
group!

Thanks again to Chuck and Bruce, who listened to MP3's of both of these
receptions, and suggested the identity of the station (which was right
on, even back in July of last year).

73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)

Hi Guys:

We're on Vacation in Branson, MISSOURI...and I brought a few ULRs along to do a little DXing after everyone has gone to bed!! Last night was the first night I was able to stay awake long enough to actually turn on the radio and do any DXing!!|

Not sure if these Beacons are actually DX as far as difficulty goes....as I'm not familiar with normal conditions here .........but these are all NEWLY Heard for me as it's my first visit to this area. Of course they won't count for my Home Logbook...but maybe they will be something others can hear from their location???

The Condo we're staying in is a little Noisy RF wise...but I was still able to log a few beacons before crashing out!!

RADIO USED is.......TECSUN PL-380 with Debock Frankensteiner 7.5 Inch Longwave External Loop

73....ROB VA3SW

Robert S. Ross
London, Ontario CANADA
(But in Branson, MISSOURI @ Present)

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512 HMY Lexington, OK Sept/27 0517 UTC 25 Watts

263 RO Rogers, AR Sept/27 0520 UTC

314 GGU Prague, OK Sept/27 0523 UTC 25 Watts

349 GW Greenwood, MS Sept/27 0525 UTC

350 RG Okla City, OK Sept/27 0524 UTC

353 LI Little Rock, AR Sept/27 0525 UTC 400 Watts

356 LLU Lamar, MO Sept/27 0530 UTC

370 OUN Norman, OK Sept/27 0533 UTC

375 DW Tulsa, OK Sept/27 0535 UTC 20 Watts

379 FSK Ft. Scott, KS Sept/27 0537 UTC 25 Watts

385 HO Hot Springs, AR Sept/27 0539 UTC

395 HR Harrison, AR Sept/27 0541 UTC

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