Further info: Via my USB-equipped PL-300wt, I can read out that its soft-mute is configured with a threshold at SNR = 6 dB and the soft-mute slope is 2 dB/dB. This means that for each dB that the

I agree Jim - this is probably a fairly pedestrian model, otherwise they would have trumpeted the filter choices as with the D96L. Kevin

Two new stations to add to the UL lately, heard on the PL-310 barefoot: January 28 1060 WILB Canton OH, 1700, “This is AM 1060, WLIB…Catholic Radio for northeast Ohio”, into a world newscast,

Hi Dave, It has been said before, but probably bears repeating, that with the newer Chinese radios, you can't judge the performance of a certain make and model by a particular unit. They are fully

Hello! Just saying "hi" to the group, as a new member. Also, I wanted to say that I purchased a Grundig G8 last night and am very happy I did. A neat little set; my first radio with DSP. The

Thanks Scott! That verifies what I've observed from Day 1. I purchased the PL-380 specifically because it was reported soft mute had been disabled. Audicity is proving itself to be useful software

For comparison, my stock PL-300wt measures about 12 dB soft-mute. -Scott-

Hi All, It has been debated occasionally whether the PL-380 has soft-mute. The short answer is: mine does (PL-380 2009.9 ver 1) and it's fairly easy to measure. The procedure is to tune a strong,

Here's an article from the Montreal Gazette about the shutdown of the two Montreal stations, CINF and CINW. It's interesting that the station call letters were not mentioned in the

Good spot! The antenna situation is interesting. The plug-in antenna doesn't seem to have a tuning knob. So you'd expect the radio to tune it. But they show the AN-2000 plugged in. That antenna has a

That does look very interesting. I can't see that it tunes in 1 Kc. steps or has and adjustable bandwidth. It could be interesting with the AM antenna jack. Can anyone read the small print on the

It doesn't have a keypad, is very tall but narrow, maybe 2". The jack for external antenna is a mini-jack on the top of the radio. You can use it to plug in the supplied 3" (roughly) LW/MW ferrite

--- In ultralightdx@..., "dhsatyadhana" > > > Alas, it's tough to tell if it has adjustable bandwidths, Kevin, Reading this auction- 250572198789, it says * Adjustable bandwidth; Mw step: 9KHz

Here are a few more logs. Date:01/29/10 Time: 2303 UTC Frequency: 860 KHz Call: CJBC Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Signal: Very Good Power D/N:50 Kw AMP: 384 Mi Heard: FF OM with TOH ID and

Hi all: I was wondering if anyone has one of these yet. Paul first pointed it out in September (message #4378). Per eBay item #250570954597 and our friendly eCrater seller "hygt369" at

Hi Scott, Thanks for the description. Off-tuning 1 kHz up or down from a DX station's frequency is a standard TP-DXing trick to get farther away from irritating domestic splatter, and thefirst

1.29.10, 1834, am 940, CINW, Montreal, CA, 589mi/949km, SRF-59 (Ceased pgming 1000 this am, off the air tonight at 1900; "goodbye loop" 1.30.10, 0600, am 550, WSAU, Wausau, WI, 199mi/320km,

Gary de Bock has tried every version AFAIK and was unable to detect any differences on MW. The stability improvement may have been on SW, though my 11/09 Version 1 seems okay there. Antennas have

Jim, Thanks for the info. It was simpler to fix than your suggestion. The battery contacts weren't making sufficent contact. I remedied that by bending them outwards. 73 Gil

PL380 Ver 1 and Ver 2 Hi Guys, Apart from the date of manufacture I haven't yet read of any difference in performance on MW - or have I missed something ? Joyce Ng described the difference as a