No, but we get ice. I don't care for either, but I'll actually take a foot of snow over 1/4" of ice. And no, we don't have a lot of sanders (though some highway overpasses on the interstates are getti

Thanks! I have read through a bunch of those already, thank you. Saw the awards and was hooked. :-) -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!

Agreed. I ordered mine from Anon-co on Sunday evening. HK Post says it's on it's way. Amazingly, the HK Post tracking number works on the USPS site. Go figure.

Shipping from anon-co, via eBay, went from $20 to $17 just in the time I've been interested, which is about 3 weeks now. Should be here "soon". :-) -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by

If you have good eyes and tiny tools and ain't afraid o' no SMD chips, you can get them from Mouser. The 4735 has a minimum quantity of 200, though, so to get one (1), you'd have to get the 4734. http

Mouser's site says the only difference between the 4734 and 4735 is that the latter decodes RDS/RBDS. Datasheet for the "473x" is here: http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/Si473x-B

My PL606 is on its way and I'm looking forward to chasing some of the ULDX awards and generally getting back in to AM DX but ... this sums up my fears: http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/2011-01-01/ HNY, all

XYL missed the letter carrier yesterday, but I picked up my Tecsun PL-606 at the USPS today! Whoo hoo! Unfortunately, with RTTY Roundup this weekend, I won't have much time to start logging DX ... wel

Just had this happen recently in my Zenith 2000 (1960-vintage FM-AM). FORTUNATELY, the folks in Chicago provided a plastic sleeve for the 8 D cells (yes, 8 D cells) so there was no damage to the radio

Last night, after prepping for the presentation I did for the club this morning, I worked with the '606 a bit. What great fun! It was like being a kid. Even found some stations playing music in betwee

The plan is to eventually use a new instance of the log built into the DX Lab Suite. It's a ham program (that does everything and is free) and it has the capability of allowing multiple databases. I w

It's Mocrosoft's proprietary spreadsheet format that many people mistake as a "standard". Google Docs should open that as should OpenOffice. In fact, OO 3.x just opened it on my laptop. Usually what h

Listened a bunch before bedtime last night, about 2200-2300 CST (0400-0500 UTC). Haven't listened to this much AM in *years*. Don't even know most of the locals well enough to avoid them, other than K

Still new at cyberstalking AM stations so could use some pointers. Caught two stations on 1700 this morning (0830 CST or so). One was a sports station with the PL-606 oriented E-W and the other was pl

Oooooh. It doesn't appear that the author has dumped the FCC DB to the spreadsheet in a few years, but otherwise this is cool. I downloaded it and loaded it into OpenOffice (take note! :) Put my lat/l

OK - I was going by the notes on the page - 2007. Regardless, very nice! -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!

Interesting - KLIF's page doesn't mention the simulcast but KTCK's does. Maybe they just switched? Thanks for the tip!

Look! FlavoRadios! :-)

A loopstick, as found in, say, a Tecsun PL-606, has the nulls broadside to it, right? With the strongest signals off the end, right? Right? Or am I all orthogonal??? And yes, given that I am a radio h

Anyone figured out if there is a hidden option to keep the backlight on at all times? I was hoping that it would if the unit was plugged in, but alas (I also confirmed that there is no data seen on th