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Newfoundland Ultralight Trans-Atlantics Report Oct 20 - 21

Greetings to Everyone, High static and noise levels continued on during last evening's monitoring sessions here. 549-ALGERIA, Alger Chaine 1, Hamadouche 21:38 UT/20,Arabic talk 558-SPAIN,

By Allen Willie · #11799 ·

Re: Oklahoma DX 10-20-10

Richard, I think your guesses at the TA'a are correct except for << 1062 unID, (TUR?) 0406, het. >> This is far more likely to be Denmark which is often huge here on the East Coast at that

By MarkWA1ION · #11798 ·

Dxing from Signal Hill, Newfoundland

Hello To All, Once again this morning before sunrise I made the trek on foot up to Signal Hill to try my hand at Dxing with the SRF-M37V barefoot overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Great conditions

By Allen Willie · #11797 ·

Oklahoma TP's 10/21/10

TP activity picked up slightly from the last few days. The signals seemed to peak after sunrise. Receiver: Tecsun PL-310 with 7.5-inch loopstick. Local sunrise was at 1242. 558 unID, 1252, weak

By bbwrwy · #11796 ·

Re: Dxpedition to Castle Rock, Cape Peninsula, South Africa - ...

Hi Gary Thank you for your kind comments regarding the recent mp3 recordings from Castle Rock. As you mention the SRF-M37V's wide bandwidth allows for a fairly clear audio recording - especially in

By freetodx · #11795 ·

Re: Gary Deacon - Castle Rock Dxpedition

Hi Allen Thank you for your kind comments re the dxing report from Castle Rock. It's always interesting to read about your dx reports and the impressive reception with your SRF-M37V. It's good

By freetodx · #11794 ·

Tecsun PL380 for $33 at anon-co

Joyce is discounting the Tecsun PL380 360 390 310. The PL380 at 27% discount. Is now the time to buy ? Regards, Tony King NZ

By tonyzl@... · #11793 ·

Re: ferrite vs sensitivity

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

By ferrite61 <dxrx@...> · #11790 ·

Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 10-20

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

By Gary DeBock · #11792 ·

Re: Possible El Cajon / La Mesa, CA TPs 2010-10-20, incl. a st...

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

By Gary DeBock · #11791 ·

Re: ferrite vs sensitivity

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

By satya@sounddsl.com <satya@...> · #11789 ·

ferrite vs sensitivity

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

By lrdheat · #11788 ·

Oklahoma DX 10-20-10

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

By bbwrwy · #11787 ·

Possible El Cajon / La Mesa, CA TPs 2010-10-20, incl. a strong one in my RF Zoo

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

By pianoplayer88key · #11786 ·

Newfoundland Ultralight Trans - Atlantics Report Oct 19 - 20

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

By Allen Willie · #11785 ·

St. John's, Newfoundland Morning Dx Session Oct 20/10

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

By Allen Willie · #11784 ·

Re: The Southern CCrane SWP Slider

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

By Gary DeBock · #11783 ·

Re: Gary Deacon - Castle Rock Dxpedition

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

By Allen Willie · #11781 ·

Re: LINE OF SIGHT

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

By Ken Kizer · #11780 ·

Re: Oklahoma TP's 10-19-10

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

By bbwrwy · #11779 ·

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