I finally finished - well almost - a AVR program andcircuit to disablethe soft mute feature on the G8. It does so all insidethe case of the radio and at the touch of a button - which makes me

Hello All, China's Tecsun Company is certainly to be commended for theirbreakthrough success in developing reasonably-priced pocketradios offering outstanding, DSP-enhanced AM and FM



Gary, when you eventually get around to starting the PL-380 plug-in experiment sometime after December 21, 2012 or so, do you think there will be a way to mount an external stick on the side of the

WOW!!! Barely listenable there on most radios? I would think it would be just about a blowtorch signal!!! What gives? I'm near El Cajon and have difficulty here with it due to a strong local on

At 03:09 AM 6/12/2010, you wrote:

KMPC is now on 1540, and 710 is now KSPN, and has been for a few years now. Or do you mean 710 KIRO?

Hi Neil, Thanks for your interest in this project, and also for your private email.I'll go ahead and place your name down as #29 in the official PL-360 7.5"loopstick production list (if you don't

I realize that Gary has other things to do with his time but I REALLY hope that he will find some time in the future to make a few more of these antennas. I'm sure there are other folks like me who

I believe 710 is KSPN now... or do you mean 1540 KMPC? Also I'll be interested in seeing what your results are between channels. With my stock stick at my grandparents' house in San Gabriel, I get a

Hi Dave, Thanks for the positive report on the 7.5" plug-in loopstick, and I hopeyou will have lots of fun DXing with it! Like other PL-360 owners, I wish that Tecsun had included more

Hello, I opened the pl380, and soldered a cable to replace the am stock loopstick. It runs to a plug that connects to the 7.5" loopstick. I was worrying that the 25cm/8" cable would add too much

Hi Marc, Congratulations on the success of your experiment to connect your 7.5"plug-in loopstick to the PL-380! I have also run a similar PL-360 7.5" plug-in loopstick experimenthere with the

Please count me as another satisfied customer. Ireceived my 7.5" earlier this week and finally found time to unboxit this evening (it looks like you took a lot of care withe packaging,Gary), and look

There may be too many Richards around here! It was a very common name when I was a kid. That is one reason I use FARMERIK

During the day I am generally out riding one of my tractors, and watching it work! I really enjoy all my radios and antennas, and will never have enough. I get more of a kick out of equipment which

Stephen: The comparison was performed at mid-day. Richard.

What results do you get when you compare the antennas midday, like between 10am and 3pm local time? Checking them at that time should help alleviate the atmospheric / ionospheric variations.

Gary's antenna for the PL-360 is very handy lying on a lazy susan. I turn it from the edge, keeping my finger away from the radio and antenna, but I am not sure how necessary that is. Between

Two days ago I received from Gary one of the 7.5-inch plug-in stick antennas for my PL-360. I haven't had the time to really check it out. However, early this afternoon I run it through a quick