Keep an eye out for Rayovac AA alkaline cells on sale, I found a "Flat-Pak" of 40 AA's for $9.97 near the check-out. Grabbed two. Most ULR's need these, and this is about as cheap as it gets. Paul S.

Hello All, The TP's were generally pretty cold this morning, matching the subfreezing weather. During a lackluster sunrise enhancement session from 1500-1530 there was audio from 594-JOAK (poor

Planning a Portable Ultralight DXing Outing By Paul Blundell – August 2012 Updated February 2014 For some people this would seem as easy as grabbing a radio and heading out the door; I find more

Hello All, Like Dennis reported, Asian DX seemed to be somewhat affected by the Artic deep freeze this morning, but at least one low band frequency had some interesting action. The back yard was

Thanks for the photo Gary, I love seeing radio related photos. On 06/02/2014 8:45 PM, <D1028Gary@...> wrote:

Hello All, After a fairly lengthy search, I was able to locate an aerial photo showing the sheer drop off of the "Rockwork 4" ocean cliff site south of Cannon Beach, Oregon (used by Guy Atkins and I

Thanks for the report Gary. Reading about the weather related challenges you face makes me glad for the heat of summer here (even if at times we complain about it being too hot) You clearly have a

Hello To All, Only one new catch on Ultralight to report recently, that being last Sunday as follows: 936 - SAUDI ARABIA - BSKSA Al - Quran-al - Karim 20:33 UTC 2/2/14 w/ Koranic chants during

Hello All, Asian results here were very similar to Dennis' report, with a few weather-related issues causing some additional intrigue. The session started off at 1430 in the frozen (22 degree)

Thanks Gary, I am planning on doing some of these videos every now and then :)

Paul, Thanks for posting the very interesti8ng video of your DXing session with the "Supercharged" PL-380 in Tasmania. All of those stations are prime DU-DXing targets on the Oregon state ocean

That looks like a very interesting radio, not in the ultralight class but still might have some good uses. Down here in Australian we never get half the radios the rest of the world do. Paul

This applies to any area of the radio hobby, if this is amateur radio, shortwave listening, radio scanning, ultralight DXing or any other area. It becomes more of an issue as your other

This radio carries the SILICON LABS's SI4844 chip http://dx.com/p/shouyu-dp330-full-band-desktop-fm-radio-mp3-player-megaphone-w-sd-black-silver-226340 Any users? Marc -- The "Penguin" has

For something a bit different I have created a short video of some of my loggings from last night - 04/02/2014 http://ultralightdxing.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/video-loggings-04022014.html

Hi Gary, Thanks for the reply. I was very happy to be able to hear 1602 kHz NZ print Radio as normally 3WL hogs this frequency. I have targeted 2WEB a few times but 7RN - Hobart which is less then

Hello All, Asian signals rebounded quite well here from yesterday's dreary session, with several low and high band TP's showing some energy from 1430-1510. My session started off at 1430 in the

Paul, Congratulations on your excellent catch of the 2.5 kW Kiwi station 1602- NZ Print Radio. Reception of that station in Tasmania is quite an accomplishment, with so many of the ABC LR network

Date: 03/02/2014 Time: 20:45 - 22:15 Local Location: Home, Launceston Tasmania Radio: 7.5" Loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Total stations logged: 125 New stations logged: 2 Furthest station heard: 1386 kHz -

Date: 02/02/2014 Time: 21:15 - 22:00 Local Location: Home, Launceston Tasmania Radio: 7.5" Loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Total stations logged: 85 New stations logged: 1 Furthest station logged: 1386 kHz -