The answer is complex, but does use a non-calculus approach. For a given inductance, The selectivity and sensitivity are both optimzed when the following conditions are met: 1.) The coil is centered

Hello All, After yesterday's lackluster TP propagation itseemed like things could only improve, and a 1300 UTC band scan on the modifiedICF-2010 did show several promising carriers, on

Hi Stephen, It appears that your TP-DXing was quite successful this morning, especiallyin comparison to the DXers in western Washington and BC (who apparently sufferedthrough an Asian propagation

Hi Richard: My understanding is that there are more factors beside ferrite length, including the quality of ferrite material, the diameter, the type of Litz wire, and probably others. MY guess is

The sensitivity of my ICF-S5W and ICF-EX5 with their 6.375" bars is the equal of my PR-D5 with it's 8" bar. If constructed properly, should there be an expectation of greater daytime sensitivity with

Medium wave DX was somewhat different here overnight. At mid-evening I noticed several TA signals which caused me stay up past my usual bedtime. Trans-Atlantic DX using Tecsun PL-310 with 7.5-inch

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