Thanks Bruce, seems to be much the same experience as I have found so far.

I purchased this radio more than 10 years ago. The backlash on tuning is suggestive of dial and string tuning, something that should have been retired long ago. Selectivity and sensitivity were

Hello Again Jorge, 40 feet (12.2m) of Litz wire will be enough to wind the coil on a 5 inch (12.7cm) diameter FSL antenna. It will actually be enough to wind the coil for almost any diameter of FSL

Well, I have ordered whatever I need for my 5" inches FSL but the Litz wire. Jist a question... Do I need 40 inches or 40 feet. I am not used to imperial units system and I do not want to get confused

Hi all. My TECSUN DR-920C has just arrived, does anybody have any experience with this? I am not sure if I am missing something but it does not seem to work very well at all... Before I look at if it

Radio: Digitech AR-1733 Aerial: 1M Rabbit Ears as a dipole Location: Windmill Hill Park East Launceston and West Launceston Communications Site, Launceston Tasmania. Time: 17:20 –

With my focus on DXing on the FM band, I have just built up a new radio DXing case, this is designed to hold the equipment I need for FM DXing. Recently I was at my local Kmart store when I came

Date: 16/12/2020 Time: 10:45 PM Location: Home, Launceston Tasmania Notes: A late night session at home. Using my TEAC PR130 “bare foot” produced some interesting results. All signals were down

Thanks Art. Now that the weather is "meant" to be improving, I will be getting out and about more. I have a DXing (MW and FM) planned for later on and hope this will produce some good results. Paul --

Hi Paul and others, A reminder.... You are now at the peak of the Spring/Summer Sporadic Es Season (Summer Solstice) Down Under. When you DX the FMBC bands, I would extend the arms of the Rabbit Ears

Date: 15/12/2020 Time: 10:30 PM Location: Home, Launceston Tasmania Notes: A late night session at home. A good mix of signals were received and overall the band performed as I

About 3 years.

Ha!!!!! Point well taken....

Thanks for the links, I will have a good look at them. Paul -- Paul

Have checked out the information at http://home.iprimus.com.au/toddemslie/dx.html. Also: https://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_aus.html Richard.

Thanks Richard. If I can get over 50-75 stations at this point, I will be very happy.-- Paul

Paul: To date, I have logged 878 FM stations using a barefoot ultralight receiver, primarily a Tecsun PL-606. Of the stations heard, 354 stations were propagated by sporadic-E (Es). The most

Thanks Jerry, how old are these Imedion batteries?-- Paul

For some people this could be as easy as grabbing a radio as you head out the door; I have found that some more planning is required to get the most from my portable Ultralight FM radio sessions.

Hello to all, I also use Eneloop batteries in most of my radios with no problems. Want to mention that I have some IMEDION D batteries that I use in some radios, they work fine, but the negative end