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Re: AR-1733 Fault
Paul Blundell
I guess you don't let them go dead flat or remove the batteries before this happens. Paul
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Re: AR-1733 Fault
Gord Seifert
Hope that does not effect the AR-1780! Just had one arrive yesterday and am pretty impressed. It seems just as good as either the PL-310et or the Eton Satellit Grundig Edition in reception. The AGC is far better than that in theTecsun where it is way too slow to keep up with fluttery fading. Also the bandwidth filters seem much more usable than those in the Tecsun where they seem to accentuate the high pitched background hiss. Audio is better than the Tecsun but not as good as the Satellit. The SSB is far better than the Satellit's. In the Satellit it is mainly useless for use on a normal signal to select one sideband or the other to avoid interference from a nearby signal. The AR-1780's SSB is very useful for that. Exremely stable! And the separate fine tuning wheel is wonderful. With SSB, on it is just like the extremely fine tuning of the Satellit, plus or minus very small amounts, which should be excellent for a true SSB signal. WIth SSB off, the fine tuning is in 1kHz steps so you almost never need to chose between fast and slow on the main tuning knob. ATS works but is not near as useful as in either of the others. There is no provision for deleting, copying or pasting a frequency that I can find. Do a scan and you need to keep your eyes on it since it just flashes up a message that it is saving something into a particular slot. If you miss the message you won't know how many frequencies it saved. You can not browse through saved frequencies with the tuning knob like you can with the PL-380et. You need to press 0 through 9 and then switch to another page and again press 0 through 9 again to scan through them. But least there are 10 slots per page, a bit more sensible than the Satellit where a page has seven slots. Nice radio! I would not like to see it die like the AR-1733 seems to do. Regards, Gord
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Re: AR-1733 Fault
Michael.2E0IHW
The same happened to mine. I was
happy with it until then...
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Before donating it to landfill, I will probably tear it apart and see if any bits can be recycled. Maybe the speaker... Michael UK
On 23/11/2020 10:25, Paul Blundell
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Sangean DT-120 / SR-35 / DT-800
Hi, I saw by chance an informal review about the Sangean DT-120. I also found some references to these others: DT-800 and SR-35. Have you tested any of these regarding selectivity and sensitivy? Pros, cons? 73!
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Re: AR-1733 Fault
That's a crazy bug, as batteries go flat oftenly. How do you avoid that?
En lunes, 23 de noviembre de 2020 11:25:22 CET, Paul Blundell <tanger32au@...> escribió:
Over the weekend, my AR-1733 died. The display went off, thinking it was flat batteries I swapped these over, this made no difference.
Today I returned it to Jaycar, they have seen this before, if the batteries go dead flat, they can lock up and even with new batteries they won't work. End rest is a new radio which does work. If you have one of these, please keep this in mind. Paul
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AR-1733 Fault
Paul Blundell
Over the weekend, my AR-1733 died. The display went off, thinking it was flat batteries I swapped these over, this made no difference. Today I returned it to Jaycar, they have seen this before, if the batteries go dead flat, they can lock up and even with new batteries they won't work. End rest is a new radio which does work. If you have one of these, please keep this in mind. Paul
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CKMX 1060 Calgary AB
Mike Sanburn
Strong here with standup comedians doing their shtick. String of ads including one for 5G cell phones from Bell Canada. Ironic that they are heard much clearer on my little Sangean DT160 than the Superadio which seemed to be experiencing some KNX 1070 overload.
Pipeline to the north tonight. Logged previously here as CFCN.
Mike Sanburn (Cat lover)
Lakewood CA U.S.A.
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CFAC 960
Mike Sanburn
Heard clear ID: AM 960 The Fan, Calgary's only all sports radio. Decent signal mixing with Phoenix and others. Reception was on my little Sangean DT160. ( I just looked outside, it is foggy here tonight ).
Mike Sanburn KG6LJU
Lakewood CA. DM03
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Re: Digitech AR-1458 Review - Work In Progress
Paul Blundell
Over the weekend I spent some time testing the AR-1458 with my 3" FSL aerial.
Using my Teac PR130 as a spotting receiver, I was able to confirm a number of stations during the afternoon, a video of these are below.
https://ultralightradiodxing.blogspot.com/2020/11/digitech-ar-1458-loggings-22112020.html
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Re: Ultralight DX Challenge. News from Spain.
Well, I am glad to inform that the Ross DX Challenge achieved on 20th. Just 11 days to score 300 stations. Nevertheless I will be adding more stations until the end of the 30 days period. Now it is already 310, but progression is slower than before! The DEGEN DE1103 is a real jewel and it's a real pity they discontinued the PLL model. Some people told me than the newer DSP one does not bright on MW. Did you noticed this? 73!
En viernes, 20 de noviembre de 2020 23:06:39 CET, Jorge Garzón via groups.io <iberiadx@...> escribió:
I can understand their worries. Fortunately the world is not made in a 'DXing mode'... Imagine every country in Europe switching off their electric power stations to avoid noise and let weakest signals coming in! DXing local Spanish stations is a rewarding experience, somretimes more difficult for Europeans that record some TAs signals. 73!
En viernes, 20 de noviembre de 2020 17:45:19 CET, Marc Coevoet <sintsixtus@...> escribió:
Op 20/11/2020 om 14:25 schreef Jorge Garzón via groups.io: > Thank you very much Gary and the group. > I would like to pay your attention about some interesting proposal (I > hope) about awards. > Some of my Belgian dx hobbyists find all those powerful Spanish radios a pest, and ask "when will Spain start to put off AM?" Marc -- The "Penguin" has arrived - and he's not going away - ever. For former Apple users: Xubuntu.org (menu's up left) For former Windows users: Lubuntu.org (menu's down left)
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Re: Digitech AR-1458 Review - Work In Progress
Paul Blundell
That is interesting, I didn't know that they had a store in the UK.
On Sat., 21 Nov. 2020, 09:17 Marc Coevoet, <sintsixtus@...> wrote: Op 20/11/2020 om 18:05 schreef Michael Schuster:
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Re: Digitech AR-1458 Review - Work In Progress
Marc Coevoet
Op 20/11/2020 om 18:05 schreef Michael Schuster:
Interestingly this radio uses a BK1198 receiver-on-a-chip which can do much more. These Digitech radios are available in Eurupe through a UK shop by Jaycar ! https://www.jaycar.co.uk/sound-video/radios-music-players/world-band-other-radios/c/8HA?sort=popularity-desc&q Marc -- The "Penguin" has arrived - and he's not going away - ever. For former Apple users: Xubuntu.org (menu's up left) For former Windows users: Lubuntu.org (menu's down left)
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Re: Ultralight DX Challenge. News from Spain.
I can understand their worries. Fortunately the world is not made in a 'DXing mode'... Imagine every country in Europe switching off their electric power stations to avoid noise and let weakest signals coming in! DXing local Spanish stations is a rewarding experience, somretimes more difficult for Europeans that record some TAs signals. 73!
En viernes, 20 de noviembre de 2020 17:45:19 CET, Marc Coevoet <sintsixtus@...> escribió:
Op 20/11/2020 om 14:25 schreef Jorge Garzón via groups.io: > Thank you very much Gary and the group. > I would like to pay your attention about some interesting proposal (I > hope) about awards. > Some of my Belgian dx hobbyists find all those powerful Spanish radios a pest, and ask "when will Spain start to put off AM?" Marc -- The "Penguin" has arrived - and he's not going away - ever. For former Apple users: Xubuntu.org (menu's up left) For former Windows users: Lubuntu.org (menu's down left)
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Re: Digitech AR-1458 Review - Work In Progress
Paul Blundell
Thanks Michael. His videos were one of the reasons I decided to get this.
On Sat., 21 Nov. 2020, 04:05 Michael Schuster, <schuster.ma@...> wrote: Interestingly this radio uses a BK1198 receiver-on-a-chip which can do much more.
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Re: Digitech AR-1458 Review - Work In Progress
Interestingly this radio uses a BK1198 receiver-on-a-chip which can do much more.
Here is one experimenter's experience with receiving shortwave on the AR-1458: https://vk3ye.com/projects/projbk1198.htm
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Re: Ultralight DX Challenge. News from Spain.
Marc Coevoet
Op 20/11/2020 om 14:25 schreef Jorge Garzón via groups.io:
Thank you very much Gary and the group.Some of my Belgian dx hobbyists find all those powerful Spanish radios a pest, and ask "when will Spain start to put off AM?" Marc -- The "Penguin" has arrived - and he's not going away - ever. For former Apple users: Xubuntu.org (menu's up left) For former Windows users: Lubuntu.org (menu's down left)
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Re: Ultralight DX Challenge. News from Spain.
Thank you very much Gary and the group. I would like to pay your attention about some interesting proposal (I hope) about awards. There is an "European Centurian Award" but there is no a 'reverse' one for Europeans (or others) listening to American stations. Also, there is a extremely interesting challenge on MW rband elated with Spanish MW stations. We have about 200 MW stations in Spain and all of them have local and regional slots daily. It's not easy to record all of them of at least a large number when they are not networked. That involves to previously check the slots, knowing the propagation behaviour, how long do they air micro slots, even check phone codes sometimes to confirm doubtful ones. The UK MW panorama has also many stations, most of them low-powered and probably dangerously tilting to broadcast networked in a future, so we are still on time. May we think about it, propose something and maybe be taken into account? I strongly thing that we could help to raise interest in DXing or perhaps our hobby will be buried into techs and computers forever!!! ¡Muchas gracias!
En jueves, 19 de noviembre de 2020 13:21:19 CET, Gary DeBock via groups.io <d1028gary@...> escribió:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 01:54 AM, Jorge Garzón wrote: The Ultralight DX Challenge is going on! Paul Logan has already achieve it in just 8 days, and I am now at 225 stations heard. I decided to listen to the band twice a day a couple of hours each as I am working and also love going bushwalking.Wow, awesome news, Jorge! Thanks for letting us all know of the Ultralight DX Challenge excitement spreading across Europe-- it is similar to our excitement here in North America during the Ultralight Radio boom year of 2008. We were posting so much Ultralight-related news on the North American IRCA club list that they secretly asked John Bryant (a famous DXer) to persuade us to move away from the IRCA list, and form our own email list-- which we did. John Bryant himself then caught the "Ultralight bug," and became one of our group's leaders! As for the Ultralight DX Challenge awards for you and your friends in Europe, please feel free to review their information, and issue the Award Certificates for them and yourself at any time, Jorge. We are thrilled at your progress, and wish all of you in Europe the best of Ultralight DX! 73, Gary DeBock, N7EKX (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
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Re: Digitech AR-1458 Review - Work In Progress
Paul Blundell
Thanks Dan. I am going to put some time in to testing this over the next few nights and see how it goes, at this stage it seems to be working well.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 9:30 PM Dan Merta <dnmerta0@...> wrote: Nice. I find tuning to 3GG sometimes it tunes it in and then after a few seconds it loses it and I have to tune it again. --
Paul
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Re: Ultralight DX Challenge. News from Spain.
Paul Blundell
Well done and it great to see you all so enthusiast about this. Paul
The Ultralight DX Challenge is going on! Paul Logan has already achieve it in just 8 days, and I am now at 225 stations heard. I decided to listen to the band twice a day a couple of hours each as I am working and also love going bushwalking.
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Re: Ultralight DX Challenge / Hello / Tecsun PL310 ET question.
Great Job Paul!!! Yes…the Challenge can still be done by anyone willing to put in the hours and work. Hopefully more DX'ers will take part as well. Glad to see things getting back in the groove with ULR Radio!!
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Hard to believe that was 12 Years ago!! 73..ROB VA3SW Robert S. Ross London, Ontario CANADA
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