Russ,
The stock ULR's like the SRF-59, DT-200VX and others are fully capable
of barefoot TA or TP reception in states near ocean locations, but they do
require very good propagation, and the challenge becomes more difficult as the
local QRM increases.
The fall DX season was almost over when I stumbled acrooss the SRF-59
in late November, but the conditions were still good enough to log 3 barefoot
TP's, in my very modest DX environment. Dennis Vroom, another Washington
state TP-DXer, managed to log a similar number of TP's on his stock SRF-M37V,
because he also got started during the late fall season. After that,
conditions just haven't been good enough for stock ULR reception of TP's here
(except
for a fluke logging of JOAK-594 on the SRF-T615 in December).
My advice is to give the stock ULR's a little more DX time in great
conditions, before passing judgement. My own estimation is that if I had used
the SRF-59 from the beginning of the season last fall (around September), I
could have logged at least 10 barefoot TP's with it, judging from the 2010
signal strength necessary to "cross the threshold." And you shouldn't feel
strange about using the 2010 as a "spotting receiver," most of the ULR
TP-DXers
that I know of do this routinely, and suffer no psychological distress about
it
:>)
73, Gary
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