Over the past few months I have taken a step back from the radio dxing hobby as a whole to focus on some other areas of my life. With some recent changes and summer now almost here I will be able

There seems to me to be something odd about how these 3 new SONY models tune in to a station. Did you notice anything in your tests? Maybe it is just different between station noise muting? Is the

The SRF59 significantly outperforms the ICF-P26 which I just wrote it up here: Sony ICF-P26 AM/FM Pocket Radio Sony ICF-P26 AM/FM Pocket Radio

Thanks Gary, a good read as always.

As Colin has reported Asian signals improved once again this morning, producing the best session of the entire month here. The NHK big guns on 593, 693, 747 and 774 managed good audio during peaks

Excellent report as always :)

As Colin has reported there was a modest recovery in big gun Asian signals this morning, with 1566-HLAZ standing out from the crowd with fair to good signal peaks from 1430-1510. The NHK signals on

Sorry I missed it I was working tonight. I will be on for the next one if I am off. 73,Tom​

Hello radio friends, I will be hosting a shortwave radio hangout today at 2100 UT We will talk about anything and everything radio Video feed will be here : http://youtu.be/3jqRXVsdMEw A chat

I am not familiar with this radio, but comments suggest the age-old issue of barn-door front-ends and poor image rejection due to inappropriate choice of IF frequency, and RF leakage. This was a

Depending which way I turned the Terk loop antenna, I could hear WXKS on the whole time I heard the other station. Turns out it was WMIR in Atlantic Beach, SC, transmitting 11 watts 630 miles

Maybe WXKS went off the air for awhile when you were listening, allowing you to hear something else. There were murmuring stations under Bloomberg here. I was probably too late to catch the opening.-

I got the KA268 out and did a few things with it last night. FM seems OK, and the audio is very good with nice definition in the highs in music. I hope mine is just defective. On AM I used the C Crane

That's WXKS in Newton, Mass. They are a Bloomberg station and usually dominates 1200 kc here.

I'm getting a Bloomberg station with Business news and I think I just heard Boston mentioned.- FARMERIK NE CT.

WXKS out of the Boston area usually dominates 1200 kHz here, but this evening it lost out to another station I was unable to identify. The station was playing modern black gospel music. At 7 PM EST,

On the multi coil configurations spacing between the coils is important, minimum spacing should be 2", more if possible. Also try to space them evenly, including from the ends. Everett N4CY

Thanks- I am still dithering with the mechanical assembly of the antenna I will be having made out of the 18 toroids I bought to work with inspired by your use of that larger size. Yet another

Farmerik, Glad I was able to help and it also made me realize that I needed to update and clean up some of my past articles. I hope that give you the info you needed. I just don't have the time or