[ultralightdx] <ultralightdx@...> wrote: Only, like, 12 of us are old enough to remember that ad campaign, Jordan!! You're dating yourself. Yes, my sister still has some of her figurines;

<ultralightdx@...> wrote: Really very impressive! Congratulations! It saddens me that at a time when MW receiver technology is *so* good, the industry is dying, more in Canada than the US

<ultralightdx@...> wrote: Is power-cycling the receiver not sufficient to get the chip to re-evaluate the antenna? Also, let me add, that it's wicked cool that the chip can actually do tha

<ultralightdx@...> wrote: Or the PL-606 ... :-) Surely someone has a list.

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[ultralightdx] <ultralightdx@...> wrote: For some of us though (born with two copies of the "dork" gene), that's *part* of the enjoyment. :-D

[ultralightdx] <ultralightdx@...> wrote: Well, that's kinda cool. I gather you can record to the "TF" card? TF is apparently an old name for micro SD cards according to the internet. <Inse

[ultralightdx] <ultralightdx@...> wrote: Glad to see VOA is up to speed on these things: http://www.theradiohistorian.org/Radiofax/newspaper_of_the_air1.htm Seriously, I'd never heard of t

I try to look at it this way: is radio magic? If yes, then you're in the club. From Wikipedia. Note the etymology: An amateur (French amateur "lover of", from Old French and ultimately from Latin amat

That would be Pandora, which most of my younger friends (I work at a university) seem to enjoy if not running a playlist of their own. iPods have been around long enough that people may be beginning t

Also, Get Off My Lawn! :-) You're right, of course, and I'm not sure they would even bother with something like iHeartradio because the same device has 2000 of their favorite songs available whenever

Lots. -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!

Yeah, and thanks for that. A chance meeting with Richard Allen at the OKC Train Show a few years back where the discussion turned from trains to the subject of TP DXing on ultralights lead me to a Tec

As was said before, 300/f in MHz or 300/(lambda) in meters. :-)

http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2013/02/23 When I started listening to AM at night again (not that I do enough!), I was a little overwhelmed by the, um, quality of some of the programming. I have to

*The* Paul Shaffer? Leader of The World's Most Dangerous Band?

Really? 780 (maybe) and 880 were reliable beacons when I was a kid. Sheesh. If I find out that WBZ and KMOX are abandoning 1030 and 1120, then I *quit*! :-) And to be clear, at 3400 or so pounds, my O

Huh. Doing a little MW DX in the car while xyl is in grocery store. Shocked to hear WBBM ID with 780 *and* 105.9. Do they plan to abandon AM?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBEF

Knock on formica, no, I haven't. But I've had other devices' keys get mechanically stuck. Might take a sec to make certain that each and every button presses and returns. What's under those buttons? M