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Re: SRF59 owner from Uruguay. First logs
John H. Bryant <bjohnorcas@...>
Horatio,
It is so good to see another such experienced and highly regarded DXer join the Ultralight ranks! It seems almost like yesterday that Fine Tuning, Numero Uno and SWBC DXing in general were so vibrant and challenging. Welcome to the Ultralight Community! Your first set of loggings, if I remember, included 5 countries... so you are already eligible for one of our awards. As you may have noticed on DXer.ca, we have quite an extensive awards program, all based on stations heard, rather than stations verified. The application is very easy, via e-mail directly to Rob Ross and the certificates are also sent via the web. They are based on reproductions of some of the most beautiful radio art from the first decade of broadcasting and are sent at 150 dpi, so that they print very well on an ink jet printer. They look good on regular white bond, but look really great when printed on a home inkjet onto photo paper.... or they even make great screen savers :>) There is no cost involved to anyone. I don't know how much you care about awards.... attitudes vary widely amongst us.... however, I've found that the various awards are good for me for setting of personal goals. I'm standing at 67 Latin stations heard right now and I'll move heaven and earth to get to 70 (the next award level). It will be even sweeter if I beat my DX buddy of 25 years, Kirk Allen to that number!!! I'm sure that you have noticed that we have also been keeping records of most distant receptions. That list, updated soon, contains one section of records of North American DXers, but the other is open to record receptions world-wide. We hope to see your name in there one day soon. Most of all, though, Horatio, Ultralighting is just flat fun... a lot of fun... and starting a new Ultralight log book is very gratifying... allowing you to log many "new" stations. As Rob has found out (he stands well above 600 stations heard, ultralight), we all do actually end up logging quite a few totally new ones, too.. but the Ultralight challenge itself is just fantastic fun. Welcome aboard, Horatio! John Bryant Stillwater, OK, USA Rcvrs: Hotrodded NRD-535, Slider e100's Antennas: Wellbrook Phased Array At 08:30 PM 2/28/2009 +0000, you wrote: OK Robert, Also logged in SW here, back in 1982. I still have the recording sounding from the Hammarlund HQ180. What a sound on the boatanchor...!!! It was during the second DXped organized by my beloved DX Club del Uruguay, now defunct. Well, I would say Falkland Is. is not a very hard catch here, besides it appears to be exotic to you. It's nice, but helps the fact that it's on a quiet frequency. For me Chile is still a challenge nowadays!
John B.
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Re: "ULTRALIGHT DXing Goes Loopy"
gary_thorburn <kd1te@...>
Hi --
The reference was to the online article about the spiderweb loop for the SRF-59, which is at http://thorburn.org/gary/kd1te/ultra-ant Gary Thorburn kd1te@... --- In ultralightdx@..., "ronshire2000" <ronshire2000@...> wrote:
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Re: looking for transatlantics
MarkWA1ION
Some of the stations on Allen's list are blocked by locals here, but
a good number are audible on a reasonably regular basis. Granite Pier in Rockport, MA (about an hour's drive time away) approximates Allen's location much better as it is right on the coast. In the warmer weather I do mini-DXpeditions out there, not just with my "serious" receivers (RFSpace SDR-IQ and Drake R8A) but also with various ultralights. "Semi-lights" such as the Kaito 1103 are also sometimes used. Stations not on Allen's list that I find fairly common here are: Algeria - 549 Spain - 585 Morocco - 612 Canaries // Spain - 621 Netherlands - 747 (sometimes mixed w/ Canary Islands) Germany - 756 Spain - 774 Mauritania - 783 (sometimes w/ tough CFDR slop) UK - 882 (sometimes mixed w/ Canary Islands) Algeria - 891 (w/ WAMG nulled) Algeria - 981 (w/ WCAP nulled) Spain synchros - 1107 & 1107.13 (causing growl) Spain - 1116 UAE - 1170 (after WFPB s/off, before WWVA fade-up) France - 1206 (easy) UK - 1215 (typically over Spain, Albania, Kaliningrad) Spain - 1296 (over UK, Sudan) Germany (VOR) - 1323 Spain - 1359 (can be superloud around transmitter site dawn) France - 1377 Germany {and/or} Algeria - 1422 Ceuta - 1584 (over Spain SER) For sheer signal strength, the Saudi on 1521 is usually the master blaster of TA's. I have noted it within 10 dB of the night pattern strength of local WWZN - 1510 (50 kW at 9 miles, 74 dBu or 5 mV/m according to V-Soft). Mark Connelly, WA1ION Billerica, MA, USA (GC= 42.5332 N / 71.2205 W) 15 miles / 24 km NW of Boston << Hi Guys, Welcome all the new members coming on board with us lately and hope you are having fun dxing with your ULR's . Larely some of the guys have been experiencing their first taste of transatlantic stations . Because of my location here in Newfoundland I am fortunate to experience these on a nightly basis even though at times they are somewhat diminished in signal compared with the great conditions experienced here in the autumn of the year for transatlantics I thought I would share some of the stations and frequencies with everyone that I hear here which are generally the stronger ones heard from my location. Hopefully some of these will poke through and provide you possibly at your location with a few new countries to add to your logs. Strongest heard here routinely as follows: 693 khz - BBC Five Live Droitwich, England 711 khz - France Info, Rennes, France 720 khz - KNR , Simuutaq , Greenland 675 khz - NETHERLANDS, R. Maria Lopik 684 khz - SPAIN RNE1, Sevilla 765 khz - SWITZERLAND Radio Suisse Romande 1 864 khz - FRANCE , Paris 909 khz - ENGLAND BBC Radio 5, Morningside Edge 945 khz - FRANCE RFI Toulouse 999 khz - SPAIN COPE/Radio Pop. de Madrid, Madrid 1008 khz - CANARY ISLANDS Radio Punto Las Palmas 1044 khz - MOROCCO Radio Medi Un, Sebaa-Aioun 1053 khz - ENGLAND TalkSport Radio 1089 khz - ENGLAND Talk Sport Radio 1134 khz - CROATIA Hrvatski Radio 1, Zadar 1179 khz - SWEDEN Swedish Radio 1, Solvesborg 1251 khz - LIBYA Voice of Africa Tripoli 1260 khz - SPAIN SER Valencia 1341 khz - NORTHERN IRELAND R. Ulster , Lisnagarvey 1395 khz - ALBANIA Radio Tirana/TWR, Fllake 1431 khz - DJIBOUTI , R. Sawa Arta 1449 khz - LIBYA - R. Jamariiyha, Tripoli 1467 khz - FRANCE Transworld Radio Roumoules 1521 khz - SAUDI ARABIA BSKSA, Duba 1530 khz - VATICAN CITY Vatican Radio 1548 khz - KUWAIT R. Sawa , Kuwait City 1575 khz - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, R. Farda Al-Dhabbaya 73 and Good Dxing Allen Willie St. John's, Newfoundland 47.37N 52.45W
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World Distance Calculator (Weblink)
Horacio Nigro <hanigrodx@...>
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ULTRALIGHT DX...ONE NEW STATION @ Sunrise today..............
Hi Guys:
One New Station Logged this morning at SUNRISE. It is NEW to the ULR LOG and the OVERALL LOG as well!! Radio Used was......SONY-SRF-T615 with 2 1/2 Foot Homebrew Tunable Box Loop. ULR LOG TOTALS are now...........649 Stations Heard. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ************************************************************************* 1360 WYOS Binghamton, NY MAR/02//09 0626 EST EE GOOD Ad for a Health and Wellness Center in BINGHAMTON @ 0626 EST. Ad for a Local Car Dealership ..Mentioned Route 13 in New York. Air Force Reserve Spot. ID @ 0628 EST as "ESPN RADIO 1360". Into Sports Talk. NEW STATION ULR # 649 5 KW/500 Watts Nights ROSS, ONT. *************************************************************************** 73..ROB. Robert S. Ross VA3SW London, Ontario CANADA
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I want to meet you. Give me a chance!
lswggfhds <lswggfhds@...>
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Baton Rouge 1150 @ freq 1580???
franktowntrain <jleonard@...>
Tonight while tuned to freq 1580 on an E100 I distinctly heard the
annoucer say "WJBO BATON ROUGE" when I looked up this call sign on AMLOGBOOK I found that WJBO is listed @ freq 1150. Can someone tell me whats going here? Newbie Jack Leonard
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Anguilla-1610 Beacon
Hello All,
The 6090 kHz parallel makes it easy to check the identity of the Anguilla beacon on 1610, but for those wishing to hear how it sounds on medium-wave coming into western Washington, an MP3 has been uploaded to the file section on ultralightdx. This was recorded on a new C.Crane SWP Slider unit (7.5" loopstick) at 0740 UTC on 2-25-09. 73, Gary
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ULTRALIGHT DX......NEW STATION 1090 WAQE...THANKS for TIP BARRY MCLARNON!!
Hi Guys:
Thanks to the tip from Barry McLarnon I just logged NEW ULR # 648 on the Sony SRF-T615. Daytimer blasting in over Baltimore....On top with Classic Country!! Thanks for the timely tip Barry!! Radio used was...........SONY SRF-T615 with 2 1/2 Foot Home Brew Box Loop ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ULR LOG TOTALS are now.......648 STATIONS HEARD. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ************************************************************************* 1090 WAQE Rice Lake, WISC. MAR/01/09 2011 EST EE VG Female with Classic Country song "Somebody Loves You...I do" @ 2011-2012 EST. Male DJ with ID @ 2012 EST as "The Best Country of all time AM 1090 WAQE". Into STATION CONTEST PROMO @ 2012 EST. Another ID by Male as AM 1090 WAQE. @ 2013 EST. Into Country Song "Bird of Paradise" @ 2013-2016. Male DJ Spoke again @ 2016 EST. NEW STATION NEW ULR # 648 5 KW DAYS ROSS, ONT. **************************************************************************** 73...ROB Robert S. Ross VA3SW London, Ontario CANADA
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ULTRALIGHT DX......NEW STATION 1090 WAQE...THANKS for TIP BARRY MCLARNON!!
Hi Guys:
Thanks to the tip from Barry McLarnon I just logged NEW ULR # 648 on the Sony SRF-T615. Daytimer blasting in over Baltimore....On top with Classic Country!! Thanks for the timely tip Barry!! Radio used was...........SONY SRF-T615 with 2 1/2 Foot Home Brew Box Loop ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ULR LOG TOTALS are now.......648 STATIONS HEARD. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ************************************************************************* 1090 WAQE Rice Lake, WISC. MAR/01/09 2011 EST EE VG Female with Classic Country song "Somebody Loves You...I do" @ 2011-2012 EST. Male DJ with ID @ 2012 EST as "The Best Country of all time AM 1090 WAQE". Into STATION CONTEST PROMO @ 2012 EST. Another ID by Male as AM 1090 WAQE. @ 2013 EST. Into Country Song "Bird of Paradise" @ 2013-2016. Male DJ Spoke again @ 2016 EST. NEW STATION NEW ULR # 648 5 KW DAYS ROSS, ONT. **************************************************************************** 73...ROB Robert S. Ross VA3SW London, Ontario CANADA
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Re: Recording from the SRF - 59 to a mp3 recorder
satya@...
Hi Horacio:
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If you can get something like the Radio Shack volume control for headphones http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102975 that would be my recommendation. I used a home-made attenuator for a while, but this little volume control works great. Kevin S
Maybe something from here...
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GS Ultralight Loggings Feb. 28 and Mar. 1, 2009
Greg Shoom <shoomg@...>
Ultralight loggings for Sat. Feb. 28 and Sun. Mar. 1, 2009. All stations logged from Toronto, ON. Dates and times in UTC.
Added two stations to the ultralight log. Total ultralight count: 264. 600 WICC CT Bridgeport - 28-Feb-2009 0500 UTC - 2IDs heard. News. Mixing with WCAO Baltimore in CJCL-590 slop. 1 / 0.5 kW. Eton E-100 (Poor) 960 WHYL PA Carlisle - 01-Mar-2009 2328 UTC - Nostalgia/oldies music. 2 IDs, the second one being "AM 960 WHYL". 5 kW / 22 W Eton E-100 (Poor). Best, Greg Shoom VE3LXL
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Re: Recording from the SRF - 59 to a mp3 recorder
Horacio Nigro <hanigrodx@...>
De: Horacio Nigro
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Re: Recording from the SRF - 59 to a mp3 recorder
Horacio Nigro <hanigrodx@...>
De: ronshire2000 Asunto: [ultralightdx] Re: Recording from the SRF - 59 to a mp3 recorder
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Re: Recording from the SRF - 59 to a mp3 recorder
ronshire2000
Hi Horacio and welcome to the group. read the article referenced in
the words i copied from a previous message on this group "See John Bryant's article "Recording Audio from Ultralights, Part 1" on www.dxer.ca" if i understand it correctly, they use the inline volume control to keep the audio output to recorder at a low level while listening on at set of earphones. Ron Maybe some guy can tell me how to get a line level audio from theSRF -59.
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Recording from the SRF - 59 to a mp3 recorder
hanigrodx <hanigrodx@...>
Maybe some guy can tell me how to get a line level audio from the SRF -59.
I intend to use a T stereo adaptor (plug/jack) one out to earphones the other to the mp3 recorder. But I need a low audio -line out- level- in the sort the DE1103 provides. Maybe, a resistive matching network?. Any suggestions on circuits? Horacio Montevideo Uruguay
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LOGGING STATIONS HEARD
ronshire2000
What are you guys using to log stations and does the method check for
duplicates? I'm mostly just interested in a very simple log that automatically sorts or raises a flag to a duplicate. i guess this could be accomplished in either Excel or PowerPoint but haven't tried to create anything yet. Ron N8APZ
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"ULTRALIGHT DXing Goes Loopy"
ronshire2000
above titled article in Popular Communications March 2009 issue on
ultralights, SRF59 and the spiderweb loop, page 28. i thought i read the original article somewhere else referenced here in this group but can't find it now.
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looking for transatlantics
Allen Willie
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Re: Tecsun PL-310 now for sale in China
m_a_schuster
--- In ultralightdx@..., "Guy Atkins" <dx@...> wrote:
Google-translated a Chinese radio BBS entry for "Tecsun PL310" and there came a reply which basically said it hasn't been decided when this model will be marketed. Makes you wonder who is correct.
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