Hello Carl,

Congratulations on your DXing skill in receiving 106 stations in 7
7 days, on your SRF-59 and E100 Ultralight radios. That is a great
accomplishment, and a very fitting way to celebrate the first
anniversary of the ULR movement. Best wishes for a lot of DXing fun
this winter!

73, Gary DeBock

--- In ultralightdx@..., "Carl DeWhitt"
<carl_elissa@...> wrote:

My final station count for my 100 in 7 quest is 106 stations

ommitting

the unids i was not able to i.d. and 1 repeat log(dupes as ham ops

call

them when running contests).I will give a complete summary later but

my

new station count is 22 new stations logged during the 7 day

period.No

new states or countries logged though.I think i might have had Puerto
Rico on 810 but never did get an i.d.I will certainly keep trying
though.
Carl DeWhitt
Walland,Tn.

My final station count for my 100 in 7 quest is 106 stations ommitting
the unids i was not able to i.d. and 1 repeat log(dupes as ham ops call
them when running contests).I will give a complete summary later but my
new station count is 22 new stations logged during the 7 day period.No
new states or countries logged though.I think i might have had Puerto
Rico on 810 but never did get an i.d.I will certainly keep trying
though.
Carl DeWhitt
Walland,Tn.

Recent new ULR loggings on the little SRF-59:

850 WYLF/Pen Yan, NY at 5:40pm w/standards (I have a local on
850kHz. who's less than 20 air miles from my home! They were *ON* at
the time!)

810 WHB/Kansas City at 5:57pm w/WGY Schenectady nulled.
740 KRMG/Tulsa at 5:59pm w/CKZM Toronto nulled.
540 CBK/Regina at 6:50am overtop CBEF in Windsor w/CBC-1 network.
560 WMIK/Middleboro, KY at 6:02am.
970 WBLF/Bellefonte, PA at 6:16am w/a LOCAL morning show, who's
announcer had such an incredible voice I thought it was network. It
was local. Wow!

Up to 231 UL stations heard...but, only DX 3 or 4 total hours a
week...usually at sunrise or sunset here in Ohio. ULR is a real
thrill. And to do it with a $14.00 radio with ZERO modifications and
no outside antenna...that's the real fun of it for me.

To fellow US-based ULR hobbyists: Happy Thanksgiving from Ohio.

73's,

Tim, KD8GZ
Norton, Ohio (south of Cleveland)

This morning at local sunrise (1319 UTC), I heard JOAB, Tokyo J, on
594 kHz, with a fair signal. Using a E100 coupled to my 35 year old
Space Magnet, I heard a man and woman speaking in Japanese, at 1319-
1323 UTC, with slight QRM from KXSP and KCSJ on 590 kHz.

At 1323-1326, I was able to hear JOAB audio, at a much weaker level,
on a barefoot SRF-T615.

JOAB is my third ULR TP and at 10660 km (6624 miles) my longest
distance yet.

Earlier, at 1005-1019, I heard fair audio from JOUB 774 on barefoot
E100. Also heard the following:
1258 UTC 567 kHz het (QRM: KLIF 570)
1304 828 het (QRM: WCCO 830 & WBAP HD 820)
1313 747 het (QRM: KRMG 740 & Unid XE 750)
1314 774 het (QRM: KSPI & XEMF 780)

I did not hear the het usually heard on 972 kHz around sunrise.

I'm finding the E100 and Space Magnet are a good combination. Due to
its better selectivity and 1 kHz tuning, the E100 has the edge over
the more sensitive SRF-T615 for listening to split frequencies.
Overall, the little Etón receiver definitely gives you a lot for its
low cost.

Wishing all a happy Thanksgiving holiday. Good DX.

Richard Allen
36°22'51"N / 97°26'35"
(near Perry OK)

Hi Guys:

Got in about an hour's worth of Sunrise Ship today..and Logged ONE
NEW STN and had 2 UNIDS...that I need some help with if anyone knows who
they may be!!??

Radio used today was..........SONY SRF-T615 with 2 1/2 Foot Homebrew
Tuneable Box Loop
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ULR LOG TOTALS are now...................560 Stations heard
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1320 UNID (Beaming E/W) Nov/27/08 0527 EST EE Good
Christian Gospel Music. Male DJ gave ID as "Happy Thanksgiving from
YOUR FAMILY FRIENDLY STATION" @ 0530. Into more Christian Rock Music.

UNID....ANY HELP???
ROSS, ONT.
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1570 UNID (Beaming E/W) Nov/27/08 0550 EST EE Good
ID as "The Music You Grew Up With". Believe this may be an ABC Network??
Into Billy Joel Song.

UNID....ANY HELP???
ROSS, ONT.
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1330 WVHI Evansville, IND. Nov/27/08 0617 EST EE Good
"GREAT COMMANDMENT RADIO" ID @ 0617 EST. Mentioned Intimate Life Ministries.
Gave Phone Number as 1-800-881-8008. Into Religious Talk by Male Host.
Checked the Great Commandment Webpage....and the ONLY 1330 Station is WVHI.

RELOG NEW CALLS NEW ULR # 560 5/1 KW
ROSS, ONT.
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Robert S. Ross VA3SW
Box 1003, Stn. B.
London, Ontario
CANADA N6A5K1

Antique/Vintage Radio Enthusiast
Amateur Radio Stations VA3SW/VE3JFC
Enjoy Ultralight Radio DXing......It's like being a KID again!!

Defy Physics.....Play Table Tennis!! (Ping Pong with an Attitude)
«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«

Hello Gary,

Living as you do with severe local QRM, your accomplishment of
receiving TWR/Vatican Radio on 1467 kHz with a stock DT-200 is
impressive indeed. Congratulations on your accomplishment, and we hope
you log many more Ultralight TA's this winter.

73, Gary DeBock

Congratulations Gary. I'm sure you'll hear others. Good DX and happy
Thanksgiving.

Richard Allen
36°22'51"N / 97°26'35"W
(near of Perry OK)

Hi Guys:

Decent conditions to the EAST tonight at Sunset. Actually.....these
stations were coming in quite early today...starting at 1445 EST!! 3 New
Stations for the ULR Log and 2 of these are NEW to the OVERALL LOG as well.
That's 6 New ULR Stations today......which is an exceptional day for me as
I press on towards 600 ULR Stations Heard!

Radio used was....SONY SRF-T615 with 2 1/2 Foot Homebrew Tuneable Box Loop.

ULR LOG TOTALS are now........559 Stations Heard
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1340 WWLF Auburn, NY Nov/26/08 1444 EST EE FAIR
Radio Disney Dot Com spot. Radio Disney promos. Spot for Hanna Montana.
Into Kids talk.

NEW STATION NEW ULR # 557 1 KW
ROSS, ONT.
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1360 WDRC Hartford, CT. Nov/26/08 1450 EST EE GOOD
Talk Show. Talk about the Foodshare Foodbank in Hartford. Mentioned it was
at 450 Woodland Ave. in Bloomfield near the New Hartford Insurance Building.
Gave an 860 Phone Number.

RELOG...But NEW ULR # 558 5 KW
ROSS, ONT.
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1380 WABH Bath, NY Nov/26/08 1605 EST EE GOOD
Ads for local businesses in ELMIRA and BATH. Gave 607 Area Code Phone
Numbers. Spot for Advertising and promotion position at the Station.
Gave 607 Phone Number. Or mail to Pembroke Pines Media in Elmira.
Into Oldies Music...Beatles Ticket to Ride.

NEW STATION NEW ULR # 559 10KW/450 Watts Days
ROSS, ONT.
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73......ROB.

Robert S. Ross VA3SW
Box 1003, Stn. B.
London, Ontario
CANADA N6A5K1

Antique/Vintage Radio Enthusiast
Amateur Radio Stations VA3SW/VE3JFC
Enjoy Ultralight Radio DXing......It's like being a KID again!!

Defy Physics.....Play Table Tennis!! (Ping Pong with an Attitude)
«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«

Took me awhile to accomplish this feat, but at 1810 local time, heard
TWR/Vatican Radio on 1467KHz on my Sangean DT-200.

73 & good DX
Gary- W2GJW
NJ USA
FN-20wu

I have been seeking to log 100 stations in 7 days on URLs.Though i have
the rest of the day to add to the log,my unofficial total is now
104.But that includes 3 un i.d.s that i will not count if i cant i.d.
them.So i have achieved success in logging 100 in 7 days.Receivers used
were the Sony SRF-59 and Eton E-100 mostly barefoot but some logged
with the Select-A-Tenna.I will send a summary of the final results
after the quest ends tonight.Many have been re-logs but there a number
of new logs as well.
73 and good URL dx,
Carl DeWhitt
Walland,Tn.

Hi Guys:

Sunrise continues to be a productive time to DX on the Ultralights.
This morning's 1 Hour DX Session netted 3 New Stations for the ULR Log. All
were Relogs for the OVERALL LOG...but 2 of them are Call Letter Changes.

Radio Used was............SONY SRF-T615 with 2 1/2 Foot Homebrew Tuneable
Box Loop.

ULTRALIGHT LOG TOTALS are now......556 Stations heard.
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1470 WMBD Peoria, ILL. Nov/26/08 0630 EST EE FAIR
ID by Male DJ @ 0630 EST as "Peoria's News and Talk Station
1470 WMBD-Peoria". Into Talk by Male Host.

RELOG ..........But NEW to ULR # 554 5 KW
ROSS, ONT.
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1390 WGRB Chicago, ILL. Nov/26/08 0646 EST EE FAIR
Female DJ spoke about "Happenings in the City of Chicago on the day
before Thanksgiving". Into Gospel Music.

RELOG NEW CALLS NEW ULR # 555 5 KW
ROSS, ONT.
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1460 WHIC Rochester, NY Nov/26/08 0721 EST EE FAIR
Female with a Spot on "Catholic Answers" Talked about a Preist who
gives lectures on the Catholic Religion. Gave a Phone Number in
San Diego 619 Area Code. EWTN Station.

RELOG NEW CALLS NEW ULR # 556 3.7/5 KW
ROSS, ONT.
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73.........ROB.

Robert S. Ross VA3SW
Box 1003, Stn. B.
London, Ontario
CANADA N6A5K1

Antique/Vintage Radio Enthusiast
Amateur Radio Stations VA3SW/VE3JFC
Enjoy Ultralight Radio DXing......It's like being a KID again!!

Defy Physics.....Play Table Tennis!! (Ping Pong with an Attitude)
«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«

John:

I awoke early and was surprised to hear JOUB 774 at good signal
strength on a barefoot SRF-T615 at 1101-1108. I heard hets on 693,
747, 828 and 972 kHz between 1114 and 1127 UTC. Afterward I was
chasing domestics, except just before 1200 I had a strong het on 774
that faded into the WBBM/XEMF QRM. A few minutes later when I checked
it was all KSPI (why don't you walk over there sometime and pull the
meter for me - only joking).

I've spent a lot of time listening to the 972 het and have yet to hear
any audio. Sometimes it's very strong around sunrise.

I guess I should have been listening with the G313e instead.

The conditions were somewhat erratic overnight. Except for a couple
of stations in Saskatchewan, most of what I was hearing was to the
south. I pulled in XENK 620 for the first time this morning by
nulling a strong CKRM signal at 1218. Only a trace of KMKI and KTAR.

Have a good Thanksgiving. Myself, I'm off to Wellington for a family
get together.

Richard Allen
36°22'51"N / 97°26'35"W
(near of Perry OK)

Hi Guys:

Thanks to all Ultralight DX'ers who have submitted Logs for Ultralight
Awards the past few months. We have issued a Ton of awards and it looks
like everyone is having a lot of FUN DXing with ULR's and hearing some
Monster DX.

One request I would like to make for those who are submitting Logs for
AWARDS...........

Please let me know what CLASS OF RECEIVER you are using and submitting the
Logs for.

The 2 Classes of Receivers are.....

BAREFOOT CLASS

UNLIMITED CLASS

Since we have separate Awards for each Class...we need to know what you
used to obtain the Award. It is also helpful if you list the Model of Radio
or Radios you used.

As we issue more and more awards....it gets more complicated to keep track
of what Classes each member has submitted for in the past....so please help
us out and let us know what Class of Award you are submitting for.

Thanks for the co-operation.......keep up the good work with the
Ultralights. Hopefully our 2nd year of Ultralighting will be even more
productive than our first!!

73...ROB (For the ULR AWARDS COMMITTEE)

Robert S. Ross VA3SW
Box 1003, Stn. B.
London, Ontario
CANADA N6A5K1

Antique/Vintage Radio Enthusiast
Amateur Radio Stations VA3SW/VE3JFC
Enjoy Ultralight Radio DXing......It's like being a KID again!!

Defy Physics.....Play Table Tennis!! (Ping Pong with an Attitude)
«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«

We are just settling in here in north central Oklahoma and I only have the NW-SE leg of the Wellbrook Array up and running. Snuggie the DX Kitty got me up at 1200 (LSR=1310) and almost on a lark, I tried 774 for Japan with my hotrodded NRD-535... nothing.  But there was a definite het on 747 (about a 2 or 3 on the NW Scale).  I decided to try 828... just a 2, but clearly a het, so I decided to do a quick sweep of the band, starting at 531, as usual.  NHK1  Morioka is almost always there on decent JJ mornings from my NW site... but almost always at "mumble" level. No way did I expect a het on 531 from here in OKlahoma...BUT, there it was, at a 2!  There were better hets on 567(!), 594 and 693, but nothing was close to audio.

I had other things to do and hoped that LSR here would bring more bounty. It did.... not great amounts, but still really amazing from OKlahoma:

531: Persistent weak het (NHK1 Morioka)
558: Persistent weak het (JOCR Kobe)
567: NHK1 Sapporo peaked right after 1300 with JJ audio... time pips, weakly, at the TOH. Heard on Slider E100+Wellbrook
585: Persistent weak het (NHK1 Kushiro, Hokkaido)
594: Strong het at dawn with hints of audio (NHK1 Tokyo)
666: Strong het at dawn (NHK1 Osaka)
675: Persistent weak het (this is "always" Vietnam in the NW, but there are a couple of 5 kW NHK1 stations here)
684: Weak het here at LSR (I have no idea who this was!)
693: Peak caught at 1252 in "imaginary level" Asian audio (NHK2 Tokyo)
702: Peaked at LSR with weak audio in Asian lang. (Almost certainly North Korea) Heard on Slider e100, too
747: Persistent weak to moderate het (NHK2 Sapporo)
792: Weak het at dawn (South Korea???)
828: Persistent weak to moderate het (NHK2 Osaka)
954: Weak het at dawn (JOKR, Tokyo)

1566: Weak het at dawn (HLAZ, South Korea)

The fact that I've just completed listening to East Asia on MW every morning for three months in the Northwest was, of course, a huge help in knowing where and what to look for... What I found, of course, was a classic low band opening to Japan with virtually all of the usual suspects present.  After the surprise of the whole thing, the remaining surprises were the hets on 675 (Vietnam???), the total absence of 774, NHK2 Akita (it is almost always the strongest of the 747//774//828 group) AND the fact that the audio came not from one of those three but rather from 567 kHz., NHK1 Sapporo.

I might add that the only Far East stations (even as hets) that I've ever heard from here previously have been 747//774//828//873, though this is so difficult that I've rarely even tried in recent years.

We are leaving here in a couple of hours to spend five days with extended family in Ft. Worth, TX and I'm struggling with attitude and priorities :>) With luck, maybe Richard and Kirk Allen can use the list above as a starting place for an Asian Thanksgiving.
 

John B.
Stillwater, OK, USA
Rcvrs: modified NRD-535, Slider e100's
Antennas: Wellbrook Phased Array

Today, we are pleased to announce that Kirk Allen is the first Ultralight DXer to achieve: 30 Latin Stations Heard with an Unlimited Class receiver. The remainder of the Awards Committee wishes to join me in recognizing this important milestone.

Congratulations to Kirk!

John Bryant
for The Awards Committee

This Award is one of an extensive group of awards certificates available from the Ultralight MW DXing Awards Committee. Each recipient receives a digital file which may be used for electronic display or is suitable for framing when printed at 8 12" x 11" on good quality paper. Information on the Awards Program and the simple application procedures are found in the Ultralight Files area of dxer.ca

Today, we are pleased to announce that Greg Shoom qualified for three more awards: 200 Stations Heard, 25 States Heard and Trans-Atlantic DXer, all with a Barefoot Class receiver. The remainder of the Awards Committee wishes to join me in recognizing this important milestone.

Congratulations to Greg!

John Bryant
for The Awards Committee

These Awards are part of an extensive group of awards certificates available from the Ultralight MW DXing Awards Committee. Each recipient receives a digital file which may be used for electronic display or is suitable for framing when printed at 8 12" x 11" on good quality paper. Information on the Awards Program and the simple application procedures are found in the Ultralight Files area of dxer.ca

Today, we are pleased to announce that both Frank Welch and John Cereghin have crossed an important DX milestone: 400 Stations Heard with a Barefoot Class receiver. The remainder of the Awards Committee wishes to join me in recognizing this important milestone.

Congratulations to Frank and John!

John Bryant
for The Awards Committee

This Award is one of an extensive group of awards certificates available from the Ultralight MW DXing Awards Committee. Each recipient receives a digital file which may be used for electronic display or is suitable for framing when printed at 8 12" x 11" on good quality paper. Information on the Awards Program and the simple application procedures are found in the Ultralight Files area of dxer.ca

Congratulations to Kirk Allen on Logging his 300th Station on an Ultralight
Radio!! And who says whining doesn't get you anywhere eh Kirk!!?? AHAHHAHA!!

Get 'em all tallied up and send me the Logs so John Bryant can Issue you an
Award for this ULR Event!!

Now you can set your sites for 400 by the end of the year Kirk!!

Good Work and most of all...keep having Fun with Ultralights!!

73...ROB.

Robert S. Ross VA3SW
Box 1003, Stn. B.
London, Ontario
CANADA N6A5K1

Antique/Vintage Radio Enthusiast
Amateur Radio Stations VA3SW/VE3JFC
Enjoy Ultralight Radio DXing......It's like being a KID again!!

Defy Physics.....Play Table Tennis!! (Ping Pong with an Attitude)
«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«

Way to go Kirk. Congratulations. It doesn't get any easier after
300. Good luck on the next 100.

Richard Allen
36°22'51"N / 97°26'35"W
(near Perry OK)