Folks, this is my first post on the board. I've been reading and learning and going out with Chuck Ripple to see what we can find. I want to pipe in on the PL-310. The thing is simply amazing for what

I appreciate your point on perspective, Jay. I wasn't trying to do a shootout comparison, just giving my appreciation of this receiver. I hope no one was misled. Then again, maybe I need to recheck fo

Thanks John. I can feel the jones coming on. At least this week I'll be distracted by a World Series involving my team. Then again, I've been known to have the TV on and the audio turned down so I can

Robert, I just got an ID for you at 7:15 p.m. after a long revival session. WQVA, 1170 A.M. Faith Radio. My WRTV Handbook puts it in Lexington, S.C. Hope that helps. It's a religious broadcaster. This

No problem. I had just whipped up a new crate loop and was tuning around anyway when I had to go back to the computer for a freelance email and saw your request. It really was booming in here at times

Thanks Jim and Scott for the info. This is fascinating stuff for a non-techie like me. I have a question, though. When I offtune my PL-310 to one side or another of a frequency, not only does the sign

According to this site, it's on 92.4, 104.1 and AM 1030. http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/2010/01/us-military-delivers-self-powered.html Also Kim Elliot has this story on his site that talks about the

So would you avoid the soft mute or the zero reading by merely keying in 1209 instead of 1210, for instance? Or by setting the step to 9Khz rather than 10 for transatlantic stations? It doesn't seem t

Thanks to your tip, I just got them. Sorry to see another one go off the air. It sounds like even this loop will cease at 7 p.m. Better hurry if you want to log them.

They did invite you to 92.5. The station's website used to have that loop on there to play. Now when you go to it, you are immediately sent to the 92.5 website.

Thanks Scott. That had been my experience with the PL-310, that the "mute" is just an drop in audio not signal, despite the SN dropping to 0 on the meter. I guess you could find a signal so weak that

I can one up Chris. I needed to bring a four foot box loop over to Chuck RIpple's compound a few miles from me for some DXing this summer, but my wife was out of town and all I had running was my Miat

I never met John, but I feel like I lost a true friend. This little recent exchange by John sums up my feelings. On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Horacio Nigro wrote:

Some of the old NRC box loop designs worked up by Gordon Nelson and such got around that difficult-to-tune problem with a Q-spoiler. A 1 Meg variable resistor placed across the tuned circuit that you

Or watching those lights climb on a 2010's signal meter. It still seems like magic when everything lines up. Even grizzled old hams have a hard time believing in inductive coupling of a loop until you

Yea, mine was built for speed not beauty, but I used it for years to listen to the Phillies games in daylight here some 300 miles south of the transmitter. That's a much tougher task than just DXing,

Does anybody sell reprints of those original Proceedings? Some of that stuff may be dated, but it was all so well written and researched and sometimes old knowledge comes back to the forefront. It's a

Here's a website that has a photo of the radio in question. The Loewe 3NF tube was considered the world's first integrated circuit because they put resisters and capacitors inside the glass. The woode

Here's another web site with info on that radio I just found for the guy who owns it. You can see the coils a little better in this one. http://www.oldradioworld.de/oe333.htm And if you speak German,

One of the things that used to be done in those air core loops was a basket weave using wooden slats to reduce that self capacitance. I used some extra slats from my wife's wooden blinds to make up tw