Stephen, I think I've said this before, but it bears repeating: Most radio specifications are defined to be applied only when the radio is not in an overload condition. In particular, the IF filter

Thanks for the detailed reply, Kevin. Your data plotted in the G8 review is an excellent comparison. I think the G8 curve is pretty close to what I'd expect; perhaps a little off at the last couple

Last week I decided to duplicate Stephen's tower site experiment with my G8 and my PL-380 at the local WHKP 1450 tower site. I was at the chained end of an access road about 150' from the tower. The

What you are measuring with your transmitter tower experiments, as has been discussed on the list before, is not IF selectivilty, but front end selectivity and overload. This is an entirely different

Thanks for the suggestions. I may try them sometime. I suspect that 1512 would be a little more likely to hear, as the signals on 1510 and 1520 are generally fairly weak (KSPA-1510 is about 25,16

That's interesting, Gary, that your PL-380 will display RSSI levels that high. My PL-380 has a 11/2009 sticker inside the battery compartment. (I had to click the link, as I've almost never been

I just grabbed all of my Tecsuns, and my crate active/passive loop, to see which would exceed 63. On several local stations, I was able to get into the mid 90's on the 300WT, 310 and 360. However,

I've noticed that desensitization here, too, although the worst it gets at my home location is such that the RSSI at +/-15kHz from my local strongest blowtorches is 45,00 around 1170 daytime, and

For the dBu numbers, I have several stations occasionally reaching 69,on my PL-360 with either the rook or diamond weave coils. WFAN NYC, AM 740 Toronto, WBAL Baltimore, MD. Of course the S/n's are

Uh-oh, I seem to be getting rusty as far as reporting accurately is concerned: 1590, KUNX, Ventura, CA, 0715-0900+ UTC, 8/10/10, mostly all tlk in SS format. They occasionally played some mx which

CORRECTION-The 9.25 inch coil is a rook instead of a diamond weave pattern.-FARMERIK

Thanks- I have at least a half dozen S/N's of 25 across the dial tonight. I am comparing Gary's 7.5 inch ferrite, the 350uH Rook [I thought it was Diamond weave] and a low impedance Diamond Weave

Hey Stephen: I think that is another symptom of the overloads that occur in your location. With all that RF energy flying around, it's not hard to imagine that the front end gets desensitized. It

Hey Farmerik - yes, that's the max on all of the Tecsun models. That, in addition to the fact that the SNR automatically goes to zero if not tuned on-frequency, are a couple oddities on them. Also,

The highest S/N I am getting seems to stop at 25. Is that the top of the range? [PL-360 with Hi-Q coils as antennas]. - FARMERIK

What would be some recommended stations to try near the upper end of the band? Most of my local 63,25 blowtorches are concentrated at 1170 and below, plus a few almost-as-strong ones at 1240, 1360,

I'm finding the AM skirt selectivity is atrocious on my PL-380. The FM, however, is quite good. Recently (probably a few weeks ago now) I was near the tower site of a combined AM (KOGO-600, IBOC,

Hello Kevin, Farmerik and Others, For those of you with a PL-380 that doesn't show any RSSI numbersabove 69, maybe you need a super-fanatic 7.5" plug-in loopstick PL-380, like themodel below! (this

Hi Stephen, A couple of vibrant upper-band DU's are 1512-2RN (10 kw) and 1548-4QD(50 kw). Both are ABC (Australian government) stations, and can boom inwhen conditions are right. 1512-2RN produced

Hi Scott: I did the comparisons as part of the G8/PL-300WT review I did a few months ago. Look in "Files > 3 Radios, Reviews, Manuals > Radio Reviews" for the "Grundig G8 Review.pdf" here on the