It kind of depends on what exactly you consider "small". As antennas go, the Wellbrook loops are on the small side, though they're all many times larger than Crane MW ferrite loop. One benefit of the

I have a very tough time resisting a buy-one-get-two-free sale so I went ahead and ordered two pairs of the CCBuds and one pair of the Voz-P. They arrived yesterday. I'm afraid my opinion of the two i

I seriously doubt you can explain it so that anyone who doesn't already get it will really understand. About the best you can hope for is they'll go away thinking it's no crazier than many other hobbi

"...from our hotel room..." If my experience is any guide, there's your problem right there. I have yet to listen from a hotel room where I could hear anything smaller than a 50kW transmitter in the h

Do not check anything delicate you want to have actually survive the trip unless you have a case for it that makes it virtually impossible for it to be destroyed. Then be prepared for it to be stolen.

This latest entry having brought my attention to your original post, your mention of the inconvenience of having to carry an additional bag reminded me of a product I came across recently. There is a

I recently purchased a Western Digital portable hard drive. This is a very small one; roughly the size of a pack of cigarettes. Amazon was selling a "hard carrying case" allegedly designed specificall

I had the exact same thought. For anyone interested in this, THIS SITE appears to have a better deal. It also appears they have a much more reasonable shipment forwarding service that will approximate

Darn it, Farmerik, now I have to go buy more radios. Not only the KA200, but one of the others Jay Allen wrote about. It's funny reading some of the reviews on Amazon. It quickly makes it clear that m

The Crane AM antenna is probably the best "inexpensive" commercial choice if you need to separate the pickup head from the radio and the control unit. It will allow you to put the receiving part of th

Given the noise level in the average car, I strongly suspect your daughter would not be happy with the sound provided by any ultralight I've heard. My first thought was the Tecsun PL390 as suggested b

Sounds like a nice setup, though I'd need a good sized trunk to accommodate all my small radios in individual protective cases. I did just run across something kind of interesting as far as batteries

I recently bought a sling-style camera bag. If you're looking for something easily portable that type of case would be a decent choice, though probably on the very high end of what most people would w

Not to be at all critical of your choice -- for $15 that's a great deal -- but with ultralights I'd think something designed for camera gear would probably make a good radio case. They tend to have lo

If you have a portable radio with an adjustable gain, you might be able to use it as a locator to narrow down the area containing the noise maker. Turn the gain way down and you should only pick up th

540-WFLF doesn't rebroadcast 970-WFLA. They just very annoyingly ID as WFLA. It's a station name masquerading as a call sign. They do local origination programming during some parts of the day and the

That will happen no matter what you do. I've always felt the best thing is to trim the quoted material to provide context to your reply and nothing more. Replying inline like this also helps improve t

Nice case. I did something similar for my high end gear. I got a large Stormcase and carved out storage for my AR7030, Quantum Phaser, Quantum Loop, DSP, plus cables and power supplies. It has worked

The Sony SRF-T615 used to be rarer than hen's teeth here in the US. Now I see they're available on Amazon and there are no fewer than ten ebay auctions (though none are actual auctions) for them. Did

That's odd about the shipping to Canada being so much. Their domestic shipping prices were quite reasonable and it automatically discounted the shipping for ordering multiple items at the same time. I