Bonjour, Patrick: C'est vrai! The PL-310 needs a modification, while the PL-360 has a built-in antenna jack that will accept the external antenna. The PL-360 is the only Ultralight (s0 far) that

What could cause significant differences in audio when all these small portables, Eton, CCrane, Tecsun, that I've dissected use the same CD1622 audio output chip and the same value caps, resistors,

Bonjour Charly ! It's about the same here (near Chambery) under daylight conditions. Only 162, 183, 216 and 234 are audible (both France Inter and RMC being pretty weak). I did not purchase this

Hi Farmerik, Thanks for your comments. I may be wrong due to my limited english, but what I understood is that Gary's loopsticks don't need any mod' ONLY when used with a PL-360. Gary wrote :

Hi everyone, et bonjour aux francophones, I've tested LW this morning from the Paris area with my PL-390 (with a longer loopstick than the PL-310 ?) : - 162 : very good -

I have both Gary's LW and MW antennas for the PL-360. They plug right into the external antenna jack to replace the tiny little one from the factory. I also have the Q-stick which couples to any

Hi Gary, Many thanks for your kind reply (as usual !) Your LW-design loopstick also looks fine and effective but it seems one has to modify the receiver in order to use it, right ? The problem is

I checked reception on LW, yesterday at 22z with my TECSUN PL-310 : 153 : traces 162 : weak to fair 171 : traces to nil 177 : traces 183 : good 189 : nil 198 : traces 207 : weak 216 : fair 225 :

Quoting the dxtools-website, the "ext ant" jack is used "to optimally couple the signal from an external antenna to a portable radio's front-end circuitry". But, personally, I only use the Q-Stick

Correct, but this rule doesn't explain why the Tecsuns underperform on LW in comparison with e.g. Sony's SRF-M37L (even with all its shortcomings) which has a shorter antenna. Henk

Hi all: With just a few minutes to DX tonight, at 0600 UTC I put a null on 1060-Calgary with the PL-310 and heard another C&W station underneath, which was unexpected. Soon there was "...Dakota

Kevin, thank you so much for your efforts! I promise that since we will most likely have a "Snow Day" this week, after clearing the driveway and returning some library books (love walking in the snow

...and this just in! I just tried out all of my ULRs with my Grado SR-60 "near-audiophile" and fairly power-hungry headphones, with the volume attenuator. I did A/B tests on various stations here in

Hi Bryan/all: I thought the word "pedestrian" rang a bell... that was my review of the G8 from a while back. (Note: I have since come to believe that the 25 dB is meant as the SNR threshold above

I wasn't sure whether to mention this or not, but since other high end audio reproduction gear has been brought up elsewhere in this thread I guess I'll go ahead. It's also very much in keeping with

Gary, I apologize. As soon as I read the positive press regarding the RF performance of the G8, I set my googling wild, and on this site

Hi Peter, With a ferrite bar antenna, the strongest signals are perpendicular to the bar, and the nulls are parallel to the bar. Regards, Gary

Hi, all, The Ultralight Scoreboard is back online at www.pilgrimway.org/dx. As for my DXing, I'm still trying to do the Ross 30-Day Challenge but I haven't been able to do a lot of DXing lately.

Go to http://www.5bcl.com/Article/Class14/201101/3819.html to view. Tom Welch Mesa, AZ

A loopstick, as found in, say, a Tecsun PL-606, has the nulls broadside to it, right? With the strongest signals off the end, right? Right? Or am I all orthogonal??? And yes, given that I am a