You need to be very specific about what you mean here. I don't know for certain but if you mean "boycott radios manufactured in China" then you will be boycotting all (nearly all?) radios since China

Interesting radio. I wonder why it doesn't cover the entire "Standard Broadcast"? Maybe they found a container of pre-1980s analog tuners and decided to build a product instead of land-filling them?

I delete anything that doesn't interest me. I thought that a quarter-century into the "email revolution" (something that is coming to a close, BTW) that everyone had figured that out. My bad. :-) Stay

I've not studied the situation intensely, but I'm beginning to think that it's the US and Canada (and Mexico, I guess) are the only ones that make a big deal about broadcast callsigns. No one else see

ǝɹǝɥ sɯǝןqoɹd oN :-) Seriously, good work on the part of the group owners.

There are prisons that don't allow inmates to have radios with opaque cases. This is the prison version of some other radio.

NEEDS MORE FERRITE!!! :-D

<blumu@...> wrote: In my local radio market, on FM (off topic, I know), there is a station that changed their format from classic rock to sports (because, clearly, we needed a 4th

<michael.setaazul@...> wrote: Yeah .. I know. Not even DRM? I've only had an HD-capable radio for a while (HD Radio being iBiquity's and the FCC's answer to DRM because it preser

For those that have never done the math for the (US) MW band, 1 full wavelength at 1700 kHz is a couple cm over 176 (so a half-wavelength is 88 m and a 1/4-wavelength is 44 m). At the other end, 530 k

I am no expert on this stuff, but that matches what I've read. I was trying to find an article I read about those channels just recently but couldn't put my cursor on it. This one covers it, though: h

<ultralightdx@...> wrote: He does - his review is one of the reasons I have on now. :-) But he doesn't do a "tear down" and I can't find a service manual or even a schematic (not that a sc

OK, the Sangean HDR-16 isn't an ultralight ... but you all are the only MW DX types I hang out with ... Anyone know how the ferrite rod in an HDR-16 is oriented? Just got a Select-A-Tenna via eBay (af

<ultralightdx@...> wrote: Have to agree 100% here with Jay on the age thing and the internet thing. Anyone that comes to my house will see the Dipoles. And the Iso-Poles. And the beams for

<ultralightdx@...> wrote: Far be it from me to deprive your wife of her logging duties but it occurs to me that in movie mode, your phone's camera could be used to record that information

<ultralightdx@...> wrote: My sense (without evidence) is that this has more to do with people's attention shift from email groups (especially the slow-motion collapse that is Yahoo) to "so

<ultralightdx@...> wrote: "Single sideband reception: The Designated Hitter rule of the Ultralight craze?" I missed the initial gush of UL Fever so wasn't as familiar with the rules as I o

I don't know if attachments will come through, but teh google has an archive of old Popular Science magazines. Here's an Edmond Scientific ad from October 1976. Still working to push the S-A-T back to

The recent flurry of ... confused ... posts included some eBay links and even though I make good use of eBay, I'd never considered buying a Terk loop or Select-A-Tenna or the like there. I'd reallllly

<ultralightdx@...> wrote: Although I don't use them in my PL-606 (because I don't listen to it enough, darnittoheck) I have had good service from Panasonic Eneloop AA cells. I have over a