This was received at 1017 UTC (0217 PST, west coast time) on December 3, 2021 (last month) when KFI suddenly went silent in the early morning. At 57 seconds there is an apparent ID (Novio Radio?) in t

Hi Issac, Welcome to our Ultralight Radio group! It's true that your Icon R75 doesn't quite qualify as an Ultralight, but you can get very detailed information about which portables are currently at t

Yes John, The transoceanic propagation this season has been very poor compared to last year at this time, and even the best FSL's cannot receive much transoceanic DX under such bad conditions. When th

John, After some research I found the FSL design that you used to build your antenna-- it is the 3.5 inch Long Rod model used in the 2012 FSL Antenna Optimization article-- both of which are attached

Hello John, Congratulations on your FSL antenna construction, and thank you for the photo. The number of ferrite rods and Litz wire turns necessary for Medium Wave (530-1700 kHz) band coverage in an F

Hi Mark, The SRF-59 was the Ultralight radio that kicked off the Ultralight radio craze in late 2007. A full review of the model is posted on the DXer.Ca website at Sony SRF-59 Reviewed (dxer.ca) My o

Nick and All, Steve has certainly exceeded the expectations of the wacky designer of the modified PL-380, for which a full construction article is posted at the following link https://dreamcrafts.box.

Zacharias and All, It is very unlikely that an Ultralight's internal electronics would be damaged by strong signals received by the stock loopstick, However, directly connecting external antennas with

Good work, Paul! You should be able to track down quite a few Kiwi stations from local sunset to around local midnight. Along with the Kiwis you might want to try for 558-Fiji (especially now that 7BU

Hello M.I.H.0, There is no way to keep a list of all "official" Ultralight radios currently on the market because this information changes so rapidly that such a list would be outdated as soon as it i

Thanks Paul, Now if only I could understand Australian English, maybe I could ID what I am hearing. Gary

The ionosphere delivered a meltdown DU session yesterday morning with several stations exceeding their best-ever audio, even in the summer Rockwork 4 DXpeditions. 531-2PM and 1017-Newstalk ZB were two

Thanks for your suggestion, Zack. This is certainly a judgement call, because the tricky part is deciding how much sanding is too much, and the orange plastic carpenter's level surface isn't perfectly

Thanks Ray, Depending on what antenna you wish to build, a couple of these links may prove useful. If you would like an enhanced (7.5 inch) MW or LW loopstick for the XHDATA D-808 model, a full constr

Yes, Paul-- DXing on a plunging ocean cliff in October is unlikely to be comfortable, and it's best to prepare for the worst. Gary

What better way to prepare for a wild ocean cliff DXpedition than chase TP's with portables and FSL's in the rain at a local park? Like at Grayland the Chinese were putting in good signals, although t

Since its modern introduction 10 years ago the Ferrite Sleeve Loop antenna has provided a compact AM-DXing breakthrough for portable and traveling listeners, and was directly related to the "discovery

Gord and All, This gentleman has placed in a "Moderation" status. There will be no more posts of 6 messages within 20 minutes. He can still post, but only with Moderator approval. Gary

Frank, Your last group of 5 posts included two which could have been combined (on the above topic), and two others which could have been sent privately. Unless a DXer has received exceptional DX, ther

Thanks Patrice, Not only European DXers but also DXers on the other side of the world try for these Spanish MW stations. During the November 2019 Poipu, Hawaii DXpedition every continent of the world