Hello Guys, As some of you are aware, John Bryant plans to combine my "first TP" suggestions with the "first TA" suggestions of Mark Connelly, and create a PDF file on dxer.ca giving instructions to p

Hi Richard, This morning's TP's were pretty substandard here on the west coast (around our sunrise peak at 1320 UTC), but propagation can change greatly within a couple of hours, so it's possible that

To Gary (W2GJW), Thank you for your introductory post, and welcome to our Ultralightdx group. We are all happy to have you with us, as we face the excitement of our first full pocket radio DXing seaso

Hi John, Although I know nothing about Croatia-1134, I do know that it's a big challenge to hear a TA on the SRF-59, especially with all the nearby QRM you have. Congratulations on your success, and w

Hello Rick, Welcome to our Ultralight Radio group, and thanks to Tim for motivating you to join. Most of us have some connection to the ham world-- I am N7EKX, previously a CW QRP fanatic who discover

Hello Gary, Tim and Rob, The Sony SRF-T615 is a Japanese-market AM-DX portable with stunning sensitivity and nulling ability for its very compact size. Unfortunately, it has always had a pretty stunni

Hi Kevin, Congratulations on your continued TP loggings from Kenai. Your E100 certainly is getting a nice workout, and I'm happy that John was able to replace the stock loopstick with one that works b

Hi Tim, I agree with you completely. The SRF-59 provides outstanding bang for the buck, and as the original SRF-59 reviewer, I feel extremely happy that the radio has brought new excitement and challe

Hello Guys, Our Ultralight Radio enthusiast group continues its booming growth, as we enter the new DX season. Welcome to new members Tom Welch, Jay Heyl and K.J. Tunnsky. We hope you will enjoy the c

Hello Guys, Thanks to Jay and Russ for their comments on the ICF-S5W. As probably the top fanatic on the ICF-S5W, I thought you guys might like to hear a little of its history. The Japanese-market ver

Hello Guys, Although the technical articles have yet to appear in the AM-DX club bulletins, the DXing reputation of the new fully modified E100 models is already creating serious demand among both Ult

Happy Fall Equinox,, The band was better this morning with a decent sunrise peak, providing a new modified E100 Ultralight logging of HLSA-603 at 1320 (conversation in Korean, fairly good signal). Hig

Hello Jay and Others, Jay, I would have to agree with all the other comments concerning the typical selectivity of the Eton E100. If you compare your new E100's selectivity with that of any other Ultr

Hi Tom, Thanks for your question about the performance of the Sony SRF-T615, relative to the DT-400W and DT-200VX radios. I assume you have already read the Summertime Shootout posted on dxer.ca, in w

Kevin, Colin and Others, Kevin Schanilec is indeed the father of the "Ultralight Radio" moniker, and deserves full credit for the term. Around December 8th of last year, we had some discussion on the

Hello Guys, For Huelbe Garcia and others who always wondered how the tiny Sony SRF-T615 Ultralight appears in relation to competitive radios, a 5-photo album has been uploaded to the group site. Its m

Hi Gil, The DT-400W is basically a DT-200VX with an improved RF board (and yellow cabinet), so all of the memory quirks of the DT-200VX have been passed down to the new DT-400W, including the inabilit

Hello Guys, With great propagation to Asia this morning, the 7.5" Slider loopstick E100 managed to receive JOQR-1134 and China-1062 (Zhujiang EBS), for TP's #40 and #41. This compact modified Ultralig

Paul and Allen, I'm happy that both of you seem to be hearing great DX with your SRF-39FP's, which are no doubt the most successful Prison Radios since the Ultralight Boom began. Congratulations on yo

Hello Guys, As part of an E100 AM RF alignment, a friend asked me to look at the tuning shaft, which had a binding problem on one side (making the tuner shaft feel somewhat ragged during rotation). Th