I found this Ebay auction for a modified DT-400W: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-SANGEAN-GHOST-BOX-FRANKS-BOX-Ghost-Hunting-Equipment-As-seen-ON-TV-/390397495587 You gotta love that scary black case... b

Neil, I forgot to mention that neither Excalibur nor Perseus require anything special in way of a sound card. They are both newer generation SDRs and their performance for wide band recording and demo

Hi Neil, DXer Bjarne Mjelde, who runs the Arctic DX Blog, wrote an article on the Winradio Excalibur. In his review he briefly mentions its features compared to Perseus... and he does talk about the r

Gary, You summed up Bruce's get-together very well! It's a shame that more folks couldn't attend. DXers should take advantage of opportunities like this to be around others who actually think we're "n

What's rarer than significant snow in the Seattle area? Ice storms! The weather forecasters here completely missed seeing that an "ice event" was going to develop on the heels of our snow storm that s

Hi Gary, With this key component from Russian suppliers in such demand, I think you should try out this source . Perhaps they haven't raised their prices yet. Guy Atkins Puyallup, WA USA :^)

Hi Gary, What do you think of the shorter rods as alternatives, such as the 65mm or 100mm long versions? For the same general price you could get more rods and make a larger diameter loop. Which begs

Hi Jeff, A number of Perseus SDR owners have used Atom-powered netbooks successfully; it's a matter of configuring settings properly. I owned the first gen MSI Wind U100 to process IQ and listen to au

Hi Jerry, I wound a Litz wire coil at the center of the rod and adjusted the turns for as close to 500 uH as possible (the coil ended up 510 uH). Using 114/44 Litz (the size I had on hand), 48 turns o

A variety of used, professional & prosumer grade digital recorders are on the market now, too. I've seen models by Edirol (Roland) and Zoom for auction and Buy-It-Now on Ebay, and there's a regular st

This morning's DU signals from Strawberry Hill at the Oregon coast were more numerous than yesterday's catches, but like before they were all on the weak side and mostly unidentified. I wish I could h

Yesterday morning was opportunity to sleep in and recover from the long drive to Yachats, Oregon, not to mention a late night, available-light photography session with my oldest daughter. This morning

--- In ultralightdx@..., Jerry Popiel wrote: > Are there any comparison Tests or Data on how the 18 inch Ferrite Rod Loop compares to Gary's 7.5 inch Ferrite Rod? And with a lot more Folks

Yesterday I had the chance to visit fellow Puyallup resident and DXing pal Gary DeBock and experience his Ferrite Sleeve Loop antennas on medium wave and longwave. The results were very impressive. On

Saw this on a YG I belong to, and thought it may be of interest to some: radio on a chip Posted by: "Ralph Brandi" dxplorer@... ralph.brandi Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:43 am (PDT) I've been playing wit

Hi Steve, Wow, superb results during your first try with the ULR 18" Stormwise rod! Congrats on all those NDB catches. I'd be very interested to know the inductance you achieved with the coil, the num

Hi Rob, Is a digital readout SRF-39 (clear-cased "prison" version of the SRF-59) close enough? :^) John Bryant accomplished this in 2008, as another one of his clever and top-notch radio projects. Her

Hi Jackie, Going on DXpeditions is the #1 thing that helps keep my DXing interests alive. I've been heading to the Washington coast 3 to 4 times per year regularly since 1990 for DXing. In fact, I jus

The most beloved broadcaster in the Pacific Northwest USA died yesterday, Dave Niehaus-- the Seattle Mariners announcer since the baseball team's beginning in 1977. Stories and remembrances are poppin

Hi Brian, I've been following this new antenna from PixelSat since I first heard of it in May. I had an order cancelled by XMFanStore back then after they mistakenly advertised that the antenna was in