These videos seem to be unavailable to me and won't play. Gord On Jun. 26, 2022, at 11:45 p.m., "DX Central - Loyd Van Horn (W4LVH)" <w4lvhsc@...> wrote:

Evening all! I have produced a companion video series for my article from the July 2022 edition of The Spectrum Monitor (out now) The article and this video series explores the Top 10 countries from

Thanks for all your help on this topic. I have ordered some Litz wire and a ferrite rod to make a LW optimised loopstick following Gary's procedure.

Thanks for answering.

Barefoot means using an ultralight radio without any external MW aerial, such as a loop. Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

Your achievement sounds very impressive. Congratulations! I'm literally just days into this group, and this hobby. What does "barefoot" mean? Thanks, GrowUpDaveyBoy

Hi Again John, <<< I am curious as to why the external loopstick works with only a single coil - my understanding of traditional AM receivers is that they have a primary and a secondary coil which

John, older transistor radios have a low-impedance NPN (or PNP) RF amplifier and needed a low-impediance coupling coil on the ferrite. Modern DSP radios have a high impedance FET

Thanks for your reply, I have read Gary's articles and I will definitely try this. I am curious as to why the external loopstick works with only a single coil - my understanding of traditional AM

Hello all, The Sony ICF-M780SL portable radio which featured in my 252 LW daytime reception from Ireland, is actually a DSP radio, which obviously works fine on LW. I have several portable radios

Thanks Marc and Steve, Longwave-optimized loopstick design was a fascinating challenge, since no commercial manufacturer had ever included such a loopstick in any of their portables. It was really a

I remember Gary making very good antennas for am and lw for tecsun/silabs radios like the 310 or 380. But they had a different number of turns (more for lw) to match the needed coil inductivity for

I'm not familiar with the Roberts R993 but I found it online--it doesn't say much about it. It's probably not a modern DSP radio such as the various Tecsun radios are (PL380, PL330, etc.).

Hello jgriff670@..., For optimal Longwave reception on the Tecsun Pl-330, the best solution would be to replace the MW-optimized stock loopstick with an externally mounted Longwave-optimized

I have a Tecsun PL-330 which is known to be very deaf on LW. I also have a Roberts R993 (quite basic transistor radio) which has very good LW sensitivity. As a little project, I took the internal

True, unless both are more or less in the same azimuth :-) Michael On 18/06/2022 14:50, Peter 1956 wrote:

A radio is unlikely to be terrible in one location and other similar radios are good there.

After dark it is clear almost everywhere :) Many portable radios are directional enough to separate IRL and ALG, including this one. https://youtu.be/oTx5wY_-NPM Peter

Hey Peter. Yes it has been quite a while since we have had much activity on here. I am in the middle of moving house and most of my spate time has been taken up with that The Covid has also hit us

I get RTE clear on 252kHz, but at night often competing with Algeria. Michael (Devon) On 18/06/2022 10:25, Peter 1956 wrote: