A real dry spell with ULR DXing due to something called life, but I was able to log two new ULR stations tonight: 970 WZAN Portland ME, 404 miles, 1800 Eastern. "News Radio 970 WZAN" and local ads.

I ran another midday AM station count test today. I just count the number of stations with understandable sound which could be identified with more time. Tests conducted Fri 30 Oct 2015 starting at

Colin apparently picked the right time to tune in this morning as a clunker band at 1250 and 1330 finally received a potent sunrise enhancement boost. Asians which had been dead rose up out of the

JOIB and JOUB were heard in Garden City KS on a barefoot Skywave receiver this morning, 10-29-15. JOIB heard with barely audible to poor signal //774 at 1145-1147 UTC. JOUB with a poor to fair

As Walt and Colin have reported most of the Asians had already bailed by around 1400 this morning, although there were quite a collection of them about 50 minutes earlier. Similar to a Halloween

Group, It's been a while since my last posting here. Due to work and other obligations, I've been too busy to compile my loogings made in late August and onwards. Anyhow, here's a few (and very

Asian conditions took a nosedive this morning as even decent carriers were tough to find. A band check at 1330 revealed only an anemic carrier on 972, with ghostly ones on 1053 and 1566. Increasing

I think the Skywave already has the DSP noises well under control so I wouldn't expect much, if any improvement. But I got a huge improvement on the Eton Field 550 as I outlined in this

I am cleaning out shack: 1. Palomar VLF Converter, converts 10KHz--500 KHZ up to 4.000 KHz-4.500 KHZ brand new tested only works great $69.00 2. Radio Plus Q-Stick LN

That is one I don't have [yet]. It looks nice though. All my SONY radios are very good on battery life, and the ones which come with SONY batteries, those cells seem to last forever. If you go to one

Only the PL-310ET has the Easy Tuning Method scanning built in. Last time I did both a manually tuned AM 'scan' and used the ETM feature with the PL-310ET and there was not a big difference in

Have you tried the SRF-18? A just-larger-than-ultralight with stereo speakers. I had gotten once just before the last big NEUS storm and is ran for days on batteries when we had no power. Handled very

Thanks - sounds like a plan.

question. was the survey done using the radios scanning features or going up the band by hand??? thanks clyde

Thanks Farmerik, that's useful information :-) Keith B. Seattle WA

I added some shielding recently between the boards of the C. Crane Skywave radio, and have made similar additions to other portables before. My usual approach is to target the DSP chip first of all,

I'm not talking about noise from a nearby computer. I'm referring to hash generated by the radio itself, which then finds its way into the audio output. Rare on Tecsun radios, I've seen it with

Just a 'quick' AM scan comparison from the same spot in my radio room with the radios held in the same direction just to be fair. All 'understandable' stations counted, which is subjective. I did not

As reported from Victoria there were some moderately interesting Asian signals this morning, with better variety than over the weekend. The mid-band Chinese stations on 1017, 1035 and 1044 made weak

Thanks Farmerik... I also have the SRF-S84 Megabass..great little walkman Also have the Eton G8 Traveller II.. Eton G3 Globe Traveler.. Tecsun PL-380 and Tecsun PL-600... the Eton G8 is with the