Hi Kirk, I haven't logged a Cuban on 900 kHz yet. When I use the ALA100 which points right at Cuba, the dominant station is usually WATV in Birmingham, unbelievably at only 158 watts night. So far

Recently I reported a tentative R. Progreso on 900 khz. Hrd the Cuban again this morning but still as a tentative. Noted what sounded like a obvious SS station NOT from Mexico. Hrd around 1230 UTC.

Congratulations, Gary, on hearing Anguilla!! A VERY good catch, especially from someone way up to the NW! Shoot, that's a good catch down here!! Thanks for the reminder that I need to check that

Haven't the space for Wellbrooks here, probably not the $$ either. For the annual DXpeditions at Long Beach Island, NJ we've used multiple broadband loops. At that oceanfront location, trans-Atlantic

Russ, You're right that you do need a good quality preamp to work with a broadband loop. My Wellbrooks work great and I assume that they've used a dual balanced preamp to maximize their potential. I

I have REALLY appreciated the discussion on thistopic. This idea.... generated by an accidental knowledge of thehistory of such in the 30s and 40s... has been bothering me for almost aslong as we

Hi Robert, I have been following your posts for a few days now and am wondering how you like using the Sony SRF-615. I read a post in DXer.ca by you (can't find it this AM) but I thought you said you

Hi Guys: Was able to get in an hours worth of SUNRISE DX today and was rewarded with 2 NEW STATIONS for the ULR Log. One of these Stations was also NEW to the OVERALL LOG, the other is a CALL

I was initially referring to a tuned loop. The trouble with broadband loops is lack of gain - you need to intriduce so much amplification to obtain readable signals from the weaker stations that you

Hello Guys, Thanks again to all who gave advice on the 1610kHz sermon at 0805 UTC, received on a C.Crane SWP Slider ultralight here onearly Monday morning. Although the conditions were

Hi all: After thinking about this for a while and getting some inductance values from John, I went ahead and built a Crate Loop tonight as a direct connection to an e100 (stock filter). It has only

Hi Gary, Thank you for the detailedexplanation! You answered my E100 questions. Just to see if I understand: The externalslider loop is already a direct connection, providing only a

Ultralight loggings for Tues. Feb. 17, 2009. All stations logged from Toronto, ON. Dates and times in UTC. Last Tuesday I did another overnight recording, this time on 1400 kHz. It has taken nearly a

Hi Everyone, Please bear with me, I have quite a fewquestions (and some observations): Just to clarify, we're talking about aL-C, parallel tuned loop antenna. I guess I don't understand the

Hi Guys, Pretty decent conditions here tonight with the band in good shape. Logged a few I hadn't heard in a while with the Terk Advantage and without. including a new one as follows: 1700 khz -

Hi Chris, It's important to describe which type of loop we're talking about - broad band or tuned. An ideal Tuned loop has a very high impedance at the tuned frequency and a much lower one off to

Chris, I appreciate your observations, and trust them more than myown. However, they just don't square with my experience with Larry'sMom's radio (and 50 others over the years). They had loop

I'll join the Okies since I don't live too far away and was born there. That will give them about 1 or 2 more stations to add to their list ;-) Chris

John, The only loopantenna I've used that eliminated the pickup coil was a Sanserino Loopwhich connected directly to the radio through an amplifier. The amplifer had avariable capacitor that could

We need an East Coast Mafia to take out the Okies. If Rob, Allen and I all combined our logs...and we're only about 900 miles apart or so... John Cereghin Smyrna DE wrote: kick would enough!!