Hi all... Well, this morning from around 5:40am to around 7:10am, I had nothing better to do (well, ok, I guess I could have slept), so I broke out the Tecsun PL-380 and Select-A-Tenna to see if I

Hello Everyone Trans-Atlantic reception last evening here in Newfoundland was a mixed affair with many of the more commonly heard stations such as 1521 Saudi Arabia and 1575 United Arab Emirates in

Greetings To All Listened from 9:00 UTC – 9:50 UTC this morning The band signals this morning seemed very anemic with not much in the way of distant DX, Only the two Quebec stations were of any

Hi Rick, Thanks for your detailed testing of the SWP Slider's resistance tooverload, which is much appreciated. It's true that the stock C.Crane SWP model has somewhat of aproblem with image

Hello Gary, I just looked through your entire Dxpedition report from Castle Rock recently posted and reading all the information and listening to your great audio clips. The 6WF recording alone is

wa8lcz writes... Nice! Here are a few more.. The FCC site: http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/distance.html http://www.distancefromto.net/ How Far Is It? by

Gary: I also have to thank you for posting your daily log. It's one of the few ways I know about what is going within a day of stations being log. I was hoping to hear a DU this season but it now

Hi Gary, Like Allen, I have also read and enjoyed yourOctober 15-16 Ultralight DXpedition report from Castle Rock, and listened to allthe MP3 recordings. As usual, both your DXing results and

HI JERRY, I use Google maps at http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm byron wa8lcz nr detroit mi

On 10/19/2010 3:02 AM, D1028Gary@... wrote: >The SWP Slider model has outstanding resistance to overload, which makes it ideal for use with the 9' loop. In this respect,

Hi All I've been following the recent detailed TP and TA DXing reports with interest and thought that I would share the results together with a few interesting mp3 audio clips from two recent evening

Hello All, Even though a TP band scan with the modifiedICF-2010 around 1300 (prior to breakfast) showed promising carriers onfrequencies like 639, 648 and 738, these signals seemed to fade

Hi Richard, Thanks again for your detailed TP-DXing report this morning, which ishelpful to the west coast DXers in tracking propagation changes duringthe period just prior to our local sunrise. In

Propagation favored signals from southerly senders this morning. It was made worse by local thunderstorms. Receivers: Etón E100 (barefoot) and Tecsun PL-310 with 7.5-inch loopstick. Local sunrise

Greetings To All, Propagation for the most part early on last evening tended to be in the doldrums here with minimal TA's making it through and with not much of a punch, accompanied with the high

All times EDT, RX CCRadio SWP (mod) with Q-Stick+ 10.17.10 2030, 1580, CKDO, Oshawa ON, 10k, 338mi/544km, "The greatest rock of all times on CKDO" 10.17.10 2040, 1040, WHO, Des Moines IA, 50k,

Hi Gary... Well, actually, I originally bought the PL-380 - not to chase TPs, but so that in the daytime (via groundwave of course) I could listen to some domestic out-of-town stations (and a few

CQ CQ Calling N7EKX... I'd be interested in finding out how they compare with separating a very strong signal from a very weak one (even if it is 10kHz away) when nulling the strong signal isn't an

Hi Stephen, To be honest, despite your apparent impressions, the PL-380 (and the otherSi4734 chip based ULR's) actually have above average AM-band overload resistanceamong the Ultralight radio

I know that the Grundig is not considered a Ultralight radio. However, I was wondering if anyone has a YB-400PE and could compare that to the reception on a Tecsun PL-310, of which I