I measured my PL300's loopstick--I'll have to take back what I said about these PL3xx series apparently all using lousy loopsticks. This one has a good loopstick with good Q over the whole range even

wa8lcz wrote:Byron.....I don't know what the record is......of if this is it....butI have now logged 40 STATES in the past 2 Years using ONLY ULR Radios!! Anyone got more than 40????? 73...ROB

Today I checked the PL380's loopstick with the HP4342A Q meter. It's a lot lower inductance, and tunes over the whole MW range. Its Q is very close at MW to the PL310's loopstick though a little less

Hi Roy, Thanks for your comments, and suggestions, which are appreciated. Having removed the stock loopsticks from many G8 and PL-380 models, I canconfirm that the coil inductances are quite

Those results certainly meld with my mw experiences with the 310...below about 900 KHz, it is a very sensitive set...similar to the Eton 5. Above about 1300 KHz, it is much more similar to a Sangean

Gary The G8 and the Pl-380 have almost identical front end circuit boards. They use the same chip. In both the radios the antenna goes straight to the Si4734 (pin 4) via only a coupling capacitor.

Now we're getting somewhere! :) Gary, try spacing the turns as Roy did. That should perk up the Q and might net a little more improvement. Also, have a look at Ben Tongue's paper re using a spacer

I read the post which said the Motorola charger for the RAZR V3 would work on the PL-380 so I tried a charger for an old L6 and it charges the batteries as well. It also runs the radio with or

Joyce of anon-co said something about AM stability, but no one here has noted any stability problems. One thing I've noted in comparing a G8 with a PL-380 is that the G8 is much more sensitive on SW.

For any ferrite rod used in a DSP-based Tecsun radio, there is an "optimum inductance," but this is not because of the chip. The antenna circuit is a simple parallel-LC combination, as verified by

Radio Used.....................................barefoot Sony SRF-59 Total ULR Loggings (Kirkland Lake).............168 1450 CHOU Montreal QC. Man talking calls mainly from women. Callers exchange

Thanks Rob and Richard It's interesting that TA propagation from the U.S. seemed best during the early hours (1:00 am - 4:00 am local / 2300hrs - 0200 hrs UTC) with no local dawn enhancement. In fact

I have a PL-380 (#36920091000996). I'm not sure how old it is. What advantages are there in purchasing a "New" model? Thanks for helping me understand... John Washburn Vermont

Jan 13 0920 CKNX ONT Wingham 10k 1k 1903 EST 0920 WHJJ RI Providence 5k 5k 1906 EST 590 mi New state#28 Jan 14 1250 WNEM MI Bridgeport 0812 EST After passing 150 stations heard, the old hunt and

Hello All, After the second 7.5" loopstick transplant job on another Tecsun PL-380model was completed here recently (according to the procedure described at http://www.mediafire.com/?hudn0mtlueg

Hi Roy, Thanks for your comments, and experimental results. I don't know if you received the previous message, but in the case of theTecsun PL-300WT/ Grundig G8 models, Steve and I never wound an

Thank you Gary and Neil. Having the Si4734 tell you what's going on regarding the capacitance/inductance of the loopstick is a real bonus and makes fine tuning easy. Gary I think the 81 turn coil is

Scott, I have a very helpful guide to pronouncing Spanish letters and numbers that I'd be happy to share with anyone interested. I'm emailing one to you, Scott. The main reason I can sometimes ID SS

Wow, Kirk, I don't know how you can do it. Those XEs (and all Spanish-language stations, for that matter) just annoy me because I have no way of identifying them. I've probably heard most of what

Hi Gang, Not much listening has been going on around here lately, but last night I was able to do some tuning around w/ the SRF-59 used barefoot. One new station was hrd and another tentative, both