Thanks for your assistance, Paul. 639-2HC and 639-5CK have both been heard at this cliff previously, and I'll probably need to check the ABC website (with the program podcasts for the LR and RN networ

A couple of puzzling Australian DX catches from this morning at the Rockwork DXpedition site (near Manzanita, Oregon, USA) are posted-- any comments or suggestions on the station identities would be a

From my first couple of days at the wild and wacky Rockwork 4 plunging ocean cliff near Manzanita, OR, here is a small sample of Ultralight + 8" FSL antenna South Pacific DX. We were honored to welcom

<<< Following some discussions on here and my own experiences, I have added an extra value to account for signal level. This rates the signal from poor, weak, average, good and excellent and assigned

The really astronomical indexes come from low-powered Longwave aeronautical beacons (NDB's) received at ranges over 10,000 km across the equator. 362-WK in Whakatane, New Zealand (25 watts at 11,017 k

Absolutely! Any time a DXer gets outstanding results by extra effort using very basic equipment, he deserves a lot of praise. Other recent Ultralight radio examples are Peter in Botswana, and Paul in

Not too many TA splits are going to show up on the Rio beach at local sunrise :-) I meant local sunset-- a side effect of DXing in Hawaii, where Africans and Middle East DX can show up at either local

Peter, Martin was on a vacation with his wife to the Rio beach, so he may not have been very aggressive going after the 9 kHz TA splits around local sunrise. My wife was with me on the Hawaii trip in

Thanks Paul and Sudipta, Martin was only using the internal loopstick on an Ultralight-sized Radiwow R-108 portable right on the Rio de Janeiro beach with all the locals blasting away-- so he did pret

Ultralight radio DXer Martin Butera (an Argentinian currently living in Brasilia, Brazil) has shared with me the results of his amazing portable DXpedition to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in March of this y

Jorge and All. My highest scoring Ultralight Radio catches would be a couple of New Zealand Longwave beacons (NDB's) received during the August 2020 Rockwork Cliff DXpedition in Oregon state https://d

<<< Thanks for the information. I will had to have a listen out for them. >>> Good luck, Paul. Several of these were heard during our trip to the Cook Islands in April of 2018, so you should have a go

Just in time for the Rockwork Cliff DXpedition in a couple of weeks, the new Kiwi SENZ sports network is the replacement for the old TAB Trackside network. It starts operations on July 19th, and the l

All of Steve's comments on the PL-360 have been experimentally verified. The PL-360 stock loopstick is the deafest antenna in Ultralight history, but it does have one nice redeeming factor-- it is eas

Hi Kelly Jack, The only 1162-46 Litz wire that I can personally recommend is sold by "Mkmak222" on eBay at the following listing Litz wire 1162/46 for Amateur & Crystal Radio coil,Single layer insulat

Construction cost alone is about $95 for this model, but because of the long waiting list these won't be sold anytime soon, Frank. The upcoming full construction article should assist those who can bu

Thanks Frank, Sorry that the waiting list is up to about 20 now, primarily due to my lack of free time to make these. But I will add your name to it. An upcoming full construction article may help to

Hi Jim, Replacement of 100/44 Litz wire with 1162/46 Litz wire in any FSL antenna design would result in a huge increase in MW sensitivity, and is well worth the effort. The 1162/46 Litz wire requires

Hi Frank, I don't know if you have seen the 35 page major article linked below, but it features extremely detailed reviews of five popular DXing portables (with four of them "official" Ultralights) ht

Thanks Paul, As you may know, your 3" FSL antenna was actually the "movie star" in the video posted 2 years ago at the following link. Your model uses 125mm long ferrite rods, while the new model uses