Having fallen so deeply in love with E100s for both domestic and international DXing, I keep watch on ebay to see how sales are going.  Just today, I've spotted the first "NEW" E100 offered for sale.  Its by an individual owner...  I'd strongly recommend that you give this one a pass, since its both inferior and not at all amenable to any of the easy modifications that Gary DeBock, Guy Atkins and I will be publishing in the next few weeks.  Here is the URL is you want to watch this Turkey:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190247604672&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123

John B.
Orcas Island, WA, USA
Rcvrs: WiNRADiO 313e, Eton e1, Ultralights
Antennas: Two 70' x 100' Conti Super Loops, West and Northwest

Oh, well... Tyrell refunded me this morning and simply noted "unable to
ship".

--hg

I think these radios would probably qualify as ultraligths and are
available on ebay from tquchina. The M-10 is only AM! And the RP-50
has "two" FM bands!

Paul

Hi,

these are off-topic, but could help people:

. I found a Sangean DT400W with overseas shipping. To Brazil it costed
US$ 57.31 (product) + US$ 22.55 (S&H). This is the link:

http://www.tyrellelectronics.com/pc-146082-2-amfmaux-weather-alert-radio-dt400w.aspx

They accept Paypal. I've just ordered the DT400W from theirs, so I
cannot recommend this company yet (have to wait
until little yellow arrives here :)

. In the last two days we had incredible tropo conditions in South
Brazil, Uruguay and East of Argentina. Hepburn's tropo maps were just
perfect. Using a Grunding G5 (mine) and Degen DE1103 (friend's) we are
able to listen to 7-9 stations. It's really cool to listen to a
different language (spanish in this case) on FM!. Grunding G5, Degen
1103 and Kaito KA1103 (and maybe others) share the same very good FM
section. It was definitely better than Sony 7600G, Sangean ATS909 and
even Sony XDR-F1HD (with indoor antennas). So, if you need really good
FM on portable, go with G5 or 1103.

Huelbe Garcia
Porto Alegre, RS
Brazil
30S, 51W

I have seen photos of this gray DT-400W but you better call and check
to make sure the radio they ship is in this color. I think perhaps
these photos were promotional ones by Sangean before they actually
produced the radio in yellow.

Paul

--- In ultralightdx@..., "huelbe_garcia@..."
<huelbe_garcia@...> wrote:

While trying to find a supplier of DT400W able to ship overseas, I

found

a grey version:

http://wwww.electrogalaxy.com/index.html?object=sngdt400w

hihi, actually, I have difficult with some colors. The DT400W

pictured

above it's not a 'pure grey'. Definitely it's not black nor

a 'shocking'

color :)

--hg


----- Original message -----
From: "texnote" <texnote@...>
To: ultralightdx@...
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:32:47 -0000
Subject: [ultralightdx] DT-400W in Yellow, or ...?

I wrote Sangean asking if the planned on releasing a black DT-400W.
This is their reply:

---
From: <feedback@...>
Re: Sangean Feedback Form: Product Questions

Dear Paul,

Thanks for you comment on the DT-400W color.

When comes with color, it's matter of personal preference. The

outdoor

yellow color of DT-400W was requested by one of our big

distributors.

It's a sport/outdoor giant retailer.


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Yahoo! Groups Links

While trying to find a supplier of DT400W able to ship overseas, I found
a grey version:

http://wwww.electrogalaxy.com/index.html?object=sngdt400w

hihi, actually, I have difficult with some colors. The DT400W pictured
above it's not a 'pure grey'. Definitely it's not black nor a 'shocking'
color :)

--hg

I wrote Sangean asking if the planned on releasing a black DT-400W.
This is their reply:

---
From: <feedback@...>
Re: Sangean Feedback Form: Product Questions

Dear Paul,

Thanks for you comment on the DT-400W color.

When comes with color, it's matter of personal preference. The outdoor
yellow color of DT-400W was requested by one of our big distributors.
It's a sport/outdoor giant retailer.

--- On Wed, 8/27/08, bbwrwy <richarda@...> wrote:


Thanks Mark, it is much appreciated. Now I can program my receivers.
It been nearly two decades since I did any trans-oceanic dxing and
there have been some changes.

By the way, I discovered AM frequencies in the memory of the DT-400W
are cleared when changing between 9 and 10 kHz steps.



*** Same as the 200. Unfortunately one negative point from that they apparently didn't improve upon.


Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@...>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Modified Sony ICF 2010 barefoot

Thanks Mark, it is much appreciated. Now I can program my receivers.
It been nearly two decades since I did any trans-oceanic dxing and
there have been some changes.

By the way, I discovered AM frequencies in the memory of the DT-400W
are cleared when changing between 9 and 10 kHz steps.

Best wishes for the best DX season ever.

Richard Allen.

In response to Richard's question, I'll throw out a few possibilities
for Europe / Africa / Mideast that have been heard, at least on
conventional radios, in the central US. Those that are separated 4
or 5 kHz from domestics are likely the best bests where less-than-
stellar receiver selectivity is involved. Those would be stations
whose channels end in 4, 5, or 6.

In that group, some of the biggies are:
585 Spain
684 Spain
756 Germany (over Spain)
765 Switzerland
774 Spain (over Egypt)
855 Spain
864 France (over Egypt, others)
945 France
1035 Portugal
1044 Spain / Morocco
1116 Spain
1134 Croatia (over Spain)
1206 France
1215 UK (over Spain, Albania, Russia)
1296 Spain (over Sudan, UK)
1305 Spain
1575 UAE (over Spain, Italy)
1584 Ceuta (over Spain)

Aside from those, there are some stations on tighter splits that can
still bulldoze through the adjacent domestics due to sheer power.
Even though only split from domestics by 1 kHz, Saudi Arabia on 1521,
Canary Islands on 621, UK on 1089, and the Algerians on 549, 891, and
981 would be in that class.

Then there are the stations on 9 kHz multiples that coincide with 10
kHz multiples: 540, 630, 720, 810, 900, 990, 1080, 1170, 1260, 1350,
1440, and 1530. You wouldn't need much in the way of selectivity to
pull these through. Just lucky propagation. A number of these are
heard on the East Coast with 1530 (Vatican and Sao Tome), 1440
(Luxembourg and Saudi Arabia), and 1170 (UAE) among the more common.
Seldom do these reach the Midwestern and Western states, however, due
both to greater path loss and worse domestic QRM.

Local sunset is the best time here on the East Coast, especially
right at the shore. The Euro-dawn enhancement period (typically
around midnight local time) often works better for inland listeners.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION - Billerica, MA

--- In ultralightdx@..., "bbwrwy" <richarda@...> wrote:

Mark: The DT-400W can be set to either 9 or 10 kHz steps. The 9

kHz

band is 522 to 1629 kHz. No provision for 1 or 5 kHz tuning. The
closest you can get to 555 kHz would be 558 kHz.

Request, can you suggest 10 or 12 stations from across the Atlantic
that we DXers in the heart of the continent might hear if conditions
are right? Thanks.

Richard Allen.

Hi all:

With Gary's Summer Shoot-out now complete, these documents are updated
and ready for download at DXer.ca. We have new "Best In Class"
winners, including the upstart Sangean DT-400W, and several units have
been relegated to the dreaded Turkey Farm. The Gallery and Compendium
are now certified Turkey-free!

Good DXing!

Kevin S.
Bainbridge Island, WA

MarkWA1ION ha scritto:

Before I pull the trigger and order a Sangean DT-400w, I have one crucial question for the assembled multitude. Can the receiver be set to 9 kHz multiple AM channels as well as to 10 kHz spaced ones ?
Also, is there any ability to tune to the few "oddball" 5 kHz spaced channels (such as the St. Kitts stations on 555 and 895) ?

Mark Connelly, WA1ION - Billerica, MA, USA

Same question here, by a european listener :-) .
Hallo to mr.Connelly and all the ultralighters!

Good Dxing

Giampaolo Galassi, Italy

Mark: The DT-$00W can be set to either 9 or 10 kHz steps. The 9 kHz
band is 522 to 1629 kHz. No provision for 1 or 5 kHz tuning. The
closest you can get to 555 kHz would be 558 kHz.

Request, can you suggest 10 or 12 stations from across the Atlantic
that we DXers in the heart of the continent might hear if conditions
are right? Thanks.

Richard Allen.

Before I pull the trigger and order a Sangean DT-400w, I have one
crucial question for the assembled multitude. Can the receiver be
set to 9 kHz multiple AM channels as well as to 10 kHz spaced ones ?

Also, is there any ability to tune to the few "oddball" 5 kHz spaced
channels (such as the St. Kitts stations on 555 and 895) ?

Mark Connelly, WA1ION - Billerica, MA, USA

--- In ultralightdx@..., Joseph Miller
<radiodxer2000@...> wrote:

Thx Gary,
 
A nice picture and short description can be seen at:
 
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/spcialty/4400.html

73 de Joe, KJ8O 

--- On Sun, 8/24/08, D1028Gary@... <D1028Gary@...> wrote:

From: D1028Gary@... <D1028Gary@...>
Subject: [ultralightdx] DT-400W Performance
To: ultralightdx@...
Date: Sunday, August 24, 2008, 7:38 PM

Hello Guys,
 
     The new Sangean DT-400W was the big surprise of the 5 models

tested in the Summertime Shootout, and does indeed have wide-band
sensitivity superior to all other Ultralight models (including the
SRF-T615 and the E100).  In order to confirm that this was not a
fluke, three DT-400W models were ordered, and all three had the same
great AM performance.  Accordingly, Ultralight enthusiasts can have
confidence in ordering this model, for highly sensitive Ultralight
DXing this fall season.

 
     Full details on the DT-400W evaluation, including its relative

performance against the E100 and SRF-T615 models (as well as all
other top Ultralight models) will be contained in the Summertime
Shootout review, which is in the final stages of completion and
should be available very shortly to all enthusiasts.

 
     73, Gary DeBock

Thanks Gary for the excellent review. As a result I purchased a
DT-400W and used it for the first time yesterday. The build quality
is excellent, as is the ease of operation.

With my example sensitivity appears best in the middle part of the AM
band. The daytime signal from WNAX-570 (5 kW @ 726 km) was barely
audible on the DT-400W while there was partially readable audio on my
SRF-M37W. There was no signal from KKLF-1700 (10 kW @ 337 km) noted
on the DT-400W, but it was barely audible on the M37W. Between about
700 and 1500 kHz the sensitivity is better than either the SRF-59 or
M37W I compared it with.

I could not hear KBUF-1030 (1 kW @ 355 km) with the DT-400W because of
slop from local KOKP-1020 (0.4 kW @ 26 km). I've only found the E100
was able to pickup KBUF at mid-day.

Adjacent channel slop from local stations can be rejected by turning
the receiver perpendicular to the objectionable signal. Nearby
KFXY-1640 (10 kW @ 40 km) was heard on 1630 and 1650 on the DT-400W,
but it was eliminated by rotating 90° to the signal. The station
overloads the M37W from 1620 to 1630 and it can't be cleared up by
rotating.

One of my complaints about the M37W was it couldn't receive any NOAA
WX station here. The DT-400W pulled in four different NOAA stations
clearly.

My conclusion is it's an outstanding receiver, and I recommend it to
all ULR fanatics. I suspect we will be seeing DT-400W modifications
shortly. I only wish it could be tuned in one kilohertz steps.

One question: Where is the receiver manufactured? I find no country of
origin on the DT-400W. I'd always thought Sangean was a Taiwanese
company.

Richard Allen.

Hi  Guys,   Well My Robert Ross 30 Day  challenge attempt  is going well so far, up to last night I managed to get my total stations logged so far for it,  at 132 for the first 3 days.. 61 Transatlantics and 71 Domestics thus far. The tough part is ahead !!   A few logs last night as follows:     1341 khz - R. Ulster   Lisnagarvey N. Ireland   22:33 UTC 8/26/08 w/ R. Ulster ID, music ,Saturday night program promo; fair    882 khz - BBC Wales  Washford, England  22:45 UTC 8/26/08 w/ opera singer; ID mention of BBC Wales; fair   1134 khz - Hrvatska Radio  Zadar Croatia   22:39 UTC   8/26/08  w/ spanish broadcast , news by woman, mentions of Croatia ; good   1008 khz GrootNieuws Radio  Flevoland, Netherlands   23:21 UTC  8/26/08  w/ religious programming in Dutch , church and light type music ; fair **** NEW ONE *** on ULR and overall   1116 khz SER Pontavedra, Spain   00:10 UTC  8/27/08  w/ woman  with interview in Spanish,  Exterior Espana ID's ; Very good   1280 khz  WFAU Gardiner, Maine   1:36 UTC   8/27/08  w/ Boston Red Sox BB , local ads ; good   1530 khz - Vatican Radio ; Vatican   4:00 UTC  8/27/08  w/ Russian language , ID then into Interval signal ; fair   1300 khz - WOOD  Grand Rapids, Michigan   4:22 UTC   8/27/08  w/ Newsradio 1300 WOOD ID, new stories ; fair   1290 khz - CFRW  Winnipeg, Manitoba   6:45 UTC  8/27/08  w/ oldies by Bill Ainsbury and Little Richard ; CFRW ID; fair   1540 khz - KXEL Waterloo, Iowa   7:00 UTC   8/27/08  w/ Midnight Trucking Talk ; 15-40 KXEL Waterloo- Cedar Falls ID ; good   1320 khz - WDER  Derry, New Hampshire   7:54 UTC   8/27/08  w/ Inspirational Radio WDER  Id, Inspirational song "You Are  Glorious"  fair  *** NEW ONE *** on ULR     73 Allen Willie St. John's Newfoundland All logged with  the SRF-M37V  barefoot

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Hello ronshire2000     In answer to your question I personally use Google Maps Distance Calculator for my Transatlantic catches and  for my domestics this site http://www.topazdesigns.com/ambc/ it has very useful information about power output  and antenna patterns also just with the input of your geographical coordinates and the  callsign you are searching for     73 Allen Willie St. John's, Newfoundland

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I just ordered one from Amazon and it will be here on Friday. Finally
no more headphones or flashlights needed for outdoor DX. The weather
alert is a plus in my book.

Ron and Paul,

 

     Thank you very much for your positive comments on the Summertime Shootout article.  It was fun to write, and I'm very pleased that it is proving helpful to Ultralight enthusiasts as they prepare for a thrilling DX season.

 

     Ron, I am aware of two typos that made it into the Shootout posted on dxer.ca, but haven't yet figured out how to edit them in the dxer.ca protocol (without re-posting the entire document).  Anyway, if anyone would like a perfect shootout file with superior photos, I would be happy to send it directly by email.

 

     The DT-400W's great AM performance was quite a surprise here, and a timely discovery right before the DX season.  Having had the dubious distinction of being responsible for driving the price of the SRF-T615 into the stratosphere because of my recommendation in the January 2008 Shootout, I would like to make amends by recommending that all interested hobbyists purchase their DT-400W models ASAP, before Sangean responds to the booming interest with a booming price increase.

 

     73,  Gary DeBock