Hi Gil, You are certainly correct in saying that the E100 has a great reliability factor (I also have an E1XM). The E100 is a radio technician's dream, with quality construction, circuit boards that c

Hi Tom, Thanks for the link. The G100 certainly looks like an E100 with a Grundig label, with an outrageously high $98.98 price at Universal Radio, considering the identical new E100's that are curren

Hi John, Good luck on receiving #500 soon, on your outstanding DT-400W. For a DXer on the east coast, you certainly have a great record of Ultralight DXing accomplishment up until now. Having been on

Hello Guys, With the E100 now discontinued, various sellers have been offering new units on eBay for greatly reduced prices. Some of the models were store demos, but some actually have never been used

Hello Guys, The Grundig Mini 300 is one of the Ultralight radios to be reviewed in the upcoming 2009 Shootout, and is an analog AM-FM radio with 7 shortwave bands, using a somewhat erratic digital rea

Hi John, Well, you may be right about hearing Pyongyang-657 on an E100 Slider in Maine :>) , but sometimes even I wonder about the "ethics" of making Ultralight radios ultra-competitive. The latest E1

Hi Dianne, Thank you for your post, and welcome to the Ultralight Radio enthusiast group! Allen is indeed famous in the group, dominating the Trans-Atlantic DXing records with his skill, and propagati

Hello Andy, After a full disassembly and alignment of my Grundig Mini 300 (procedure details available on request), I am convinced that there's no way to make this Turkey perform well on AM. Tecsun ap

Hello Guys, A second Gobbler has checked in for the 2009 Ultralight AM-DX Shootout. Seeing the eBay listing for the Chinese-market DR-910 (with the E100-styled cabinet and multiple features), I unwise

Hi Stephan, Thanks for your opinion of the Tecsun DR-910, and the additional information, which is appreciated. Besides having the same manufacturer as the E100, the DR-910's width, height, thickness,

Powell, A tunable loop antenna (when tuned properly) will add an extra tuned circuit on the frequency of the Mini 300, helping not only to boost the signal, but also filter out whistles and images. Th

Hi Mark, In all the testing of ultralight radio models since November of 2007 (about 18 models in all), I've never seen or heard of any model with the ability to decode IBOC signals, either on AM or F

Hello Guys, The final lineup of pocket radio contestants in 2009's first shootout includes some very innovative units from the Far East, products of the hot competition between Chinese manufacturers:

Hello Okmrbh@..., Individual DT-400W model FM alignment can vary according to the Chinese factory, just like the AM alignment. Whereas the vast majority of DT-400W purchasers have reported great

Hi Barry, About the only way to make sure that a radio is misaligned (on either AM or FM) is to compare its performance with another identical model on the same band, and ensure that fringe station re

Hi John, Thanks very much for your comments, and the extremely attractive TA DXer Award, an excellent example of your creative design ability. Thanks also for the comments about being the first NW Ult

Hi John and Richard, Thanks for your comments. I'm pretty sure Dennis Vroom has also heard four continents on Ultralights from the northwest (North America, Asia, Australia and Europe), just like I ha

Hello Guys, The C.Crane SWP will be one of the five AM-DXing models fully reviewed in the upcoming 2009 Ultralight Radio Shootout, and it is a very interesting pocket radio with a design obviously ins

Hi Mark, Congratulations on receiving five continents on your barefoot E100 from Rockport, MA on a single day, last October. That is phenomenal. Here in the northwest, South America might be barely po

Hi Chris, Great work on getting your bargain E100 ready for exciting Ultralight DX! Some very early serial # E100's have a loopstick which is fixed, and not designed to be peaked at the 600 kHz point.