Did you end up buying one Paul? I hear it on very good authority from someone who works at XHDATA that they have stopped producing the Radiwow R-108. I'm assuming the SIHUADON R-108 (Which is the

I picked up a Sony ICF-SW7600GR for £55 a few years ago at a ham rally. My telescopic aerial wasn't broken :) Peter

I don’t know if their SW outlets are doing this but the AM outlets todqy are carrying live basketball play by play. Second time I’ve caught them doing this With such a clear, strong signal I can

I'd like to nominate the Sangean ATS-606A, also sold here in the UK as the Roberts R876. It's an older portable based around the Sony CAX1238M, but there is only one fixed bandwidth (450kHz IF

Home, Launceston Tasmania 22:45 Digitech AR-1733 / Internal Aerial FREQCALLSIGNLTDXP0.5313GG50.5492CR50.6213RN50.6933AW50.7743LO50.8283GI40.8553CR50.8915AN41341HPON GEEL51422HPON MELB5

Well done, sounds like a good buy. Paul

Not technically an 'ultralight', but still a portable nonetheless! I managed to pick up a rather nice condition SONY icf-sw7600gr a couple of days ago online, for what I think was a pretty good

Well I have just been contacted by a seller / manufacturer of this radio. They have seen my issues and are sending me another one, in exchange for this, they want me to give it a fair go and share my

Thanks Gary. I will add them to my list of frequencies to check. I have found in the past few weeks that the New Zealand stations are generally coming in well, around 11pm to midnight my time seems to

Great loggings as always Paul.

Spectacular signals from 4TAB 1008 and 4BH 1116 today.. not only stronger then usual, but they each held out pretty darn steady for 4-5 minutes each.. usually it's just 10-20-30 seconds at a time. Had

Good work, Paul! You should be able to track down quite a few Kiwi stations from local sunset to around local midnight. Along with the Kiwis you might want to try for 558-Fiji (especially now that 7BU

Home, Launceston Tasmania. 23:00 - 23:30 Digitech AR-1733 / Internal Aerial Over the past few weeks I have been targeting New Zealand stations in general. On Thursday night I was able to put aside

Wayne Heinen of the National Radio Club just heard again from his ananymous source that WABC 770khz will be conducing more maintenance tonight at “approximately” the same time as last night’s

Good luck with it. I never got in to QSL cards, maybe I should have, more so when I was in to SWL'ing. Paul -- Paul

Agreed David. For Tecsun (especially the more recent models) I do the same. Anna is excellent and you get a guarantee. www.radiowow.com supplies their own XHDATA and Radiwow brands though. Again,

The Saudi Broadcasting Authority is notorious for not responding to responding to reception reports/QSL Requests in recent years, but I ***REALLY* want one for my reception of Radio Riyadh on 1260khz

I use https://www.anon-co.com/ for my Tecsun radios, and they have been export versions. 73 David

Thanks for sharing that Jock, it was an interesting read. Paul -- Paul

I had Kuwait on 1548 well in very short spurts early (between 1610 and 1620UTC), Iran in very well in slightly longer sup[orts between 1625 and 1730UTC. 1512 IRan was barely audible in between