Hello Olaf, Congratulations on your logging of WEGP-1390 in Maine, using your SRF-59 inside the passive loop in northwest Germany. We all are impressed at your logging, and greatly appreciate the inte

Hello Richard, Thanks for your comments on your new DT-400W. Actually, the DT-400W's usual strong point is good sensitivity all across the band, not that it is far more sensitive than most models on a

Hi Tim, Congratulations on your SRF-59 loggings, and welcome to the Ultralightdx group. Receiving TP's on my stock SRF-59 last November also reminded me a lot of my ham radio QRP experience, and inspi

Hello Guys, There are very few experiences in the AM-DX hobby more thrilling than logging your first TA or TP on an Ultralight radio. As the fall DX season approaches, propagation will slowly improve

Hi John, I'm sure that both Mark and I would be thrilled to have our suggestions posted in a PDF file on dxer.ca. Since you have obviously logged far more TP's (and lost far more sleep) than me, I fee

Hi John, You are right about the many DX countries available in Latin America and the Caribbean, but since most Northwest DXers (including me) have received very few of these stations on Ultralights,

Hi Dennis, John Bryant and I actually prepared a 2-page Ultralight Radio-related article for Monitoring Times back in the spring, but we have both been so busy with Ultralight tinkering, Grayland DXpe

Hello Guys, Very shortly a series of articles will appear in the AM-DX club bulletins giving full details on the work of three Washington state experimenters (John Bryant, Guy Atkins and myself) to cr

Hi Dennis, The TP's this morning sounded pretty anemic to me, compared to yesterday. When chasing TP's with stock Ultralights, you are really at the mercy of propagation. If you had tried yesterday (l

Hi Richard, Upgrade IF filters to improve selectivity must be designed for the Ultralight radio's actual IF, which is 450 kHz for the DT-400W and most other Ultralights. There is a limited selection o

Hello Richard, Most replacement IF filters do indeed have some "insertion loss," or a reduction in the incoming signal strength when it passes through the filter. The amount of insertion loss depends

Hi John, Congratulations on receiving 300 stations on your Ultralight radios-- truly a magnificent accomplishment for somebody on the east coast, with serious nearby QRM. Here on the west coast it wou

Hello Guys, DXer.ca's Colin Newell, Master Filter Guru Guy Atkins and myself, Gary DeBock, has a very enjoyable meeting at a downtown Seattle coffee shop this afternoon, during which the future campai

Huelbe and Tim, The SRF-59 "scratchy tuning control" is a malady that afflicts about 15% of the units I have aligned (or 8 out of the 51 I have aligned). The only cure for the problem is replacement o

Hi Paul, Yes, I know all about the SSP series of Sony portables, because I have owned all three (and still have two of the models). The ICF-S5W was the only one of the three models exported from Japan

Hello Guys, Like everybody else, I also got up late this morning (at 1330), and thought that with pretty strong sunlight already outside, the fun was probably over. I sure was wrong! It was obviously

Hi Dennis, Rob Ross and I are "war buddies" from the earliest days of Ultralight radio DX, so we get a little enthusiastic when we talk to each other. Back in December when the general AM-DX community

Hi Tim, Alignment of the SRF-59 (or any portable) involves these steps: 1) Ensure standard frequency coverage of 520- 1750 kHz, and ensure that the tuner's 530 kHz position matches that of the dial ne

Hi John, Good luck on chasing the TP's and DU's tomorrow-- or maybe down there they are UP's and HU's?? (Upper Pacifics and Here Unders). It will be very interesting to know what your modified E100 an

Hello Guys, On Saturday, Guy Atkins and I had the distinct honor of welcoming Colin and Andrea Newell (and their friend Sara, from Toronto) to a Seattle coffee shop, during which a very enjoyable conv