Rob,
If you ever wondered who is reading your incredible logs, I am! Being
on the west coast, there is no way I can possibly receive most of the
stations you are hearing, but I'm thrilled to read about your amazing
DX-ploits
anyway.
Far and away, the two most successful
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California Radio Dial 1928
It's January 1928 in California. Al Jolson's Jazz Singer film with
sound enthralls the state, Jimmie Rodgers Blue Yodel No.1 [T for
Texas] is about to hit the music charts, Stanford
In looking at Dr. Xin's site, he reviews the SRF-S83 as being the heir
apparent to the SRF-59 for sound quality on FM, but notes that it is no more
sensitive than the 59. It also uses the CXA1129N chip. He later states
that it has been re-packaged into the SRF-S84. In looking at the internal
The SRF59 easily tops any portable I've used other than the 2010, which
simply isn't fair to the 59, but I hope those who've been so generous
with their praise as to suggest people don't need Drakes or whatever
are exaggerating...
Perhaps your claims of exaggeration are exaggerations. ;) I don't
I get considerable satisfaction using zero
power, dxing with a crystal radio set. Hearing a 1000 mile station on my
xtl radio is as big a thrill as hearing a TA on my Drakes hooked to a ewe
or
BOG.
So, has the crystal set ever been hooked to the EWE or BOG? Results?
Craig Healy
Providence,
Craig,
The ewe's and bog's don't provide enough signal strength to power the xtl
set or at least I haven't figured out how to match the impedance. With my
160' end fed random wire, up 70', it gives more than enough juice to work
my set. During last year's xtl radio contest, I i'd 155 MW stations
At 06:03 AM 1/22/2008, you wrote:
I get considerable satisfaction using zero
power, dxing with a crystal radio set. Hearing a 1000 mile station on my
xtl radio is as big a thrill as hearing a TA on my Drakes hooked to a ewe
or
BOG.
So, has the crystal set ever been hooked to the EWE or BOG?
Walt,
I believe John heard TP's at Grayland on a regen, not an xtl set.
73 Gil
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To be fair to my 2010, it is not a true portable in the same
vein as
the 59. The 2010 is more of a luggable than a carryable listen
to while
on your feet radio.
I agree - hey, the 2010 is my primary receiver for our annual
DXpedition, and except
Walt,
Meant to say something about Mike Tuggle of Kaneohe Hawaii and his MW xtl
set...
Mike hears RVC, Cuba and deep into the midwest and Deep South from his
location, but no TP's. He attributes that to living in a U-shaped bowl at
the base of mountains. The open end of the bowl faces towards
No, my TP was with a replica of a vintage 1-tube regenerative set.
Its dead easy to go TP with a so-called 1AD (one-active-device.) One
of the xtal set guys is in Hawaii with a crystal set the size of
a desk top and he routinely DXes our West Coast. I see no reason at
all why a crystal
Here's the description of Mike's set:
http://www.antiquewireless.org/otb/dxxtal.htm
It is elegant. Mine sprawls all over the place and can't be described as
elegant.
Gil
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Mike Tuggle in Hawaii has a separate crystal set he's built just for LF
reception, adding a single jfet transistor as a BFO in order to demodulate
the CW beacons. He's on ndblist, and does hear LF TP signals.
Here's a paste of a recent ndblist report he made--Samoa is on his list.
He's reported
Gil,
I ordered the Sony SRF-S84 AM-FM analog unit from Amazon (via Wall
Street Photo) at the steep price, and it just arrived this morning. The
original
plan was to include it in the 2008 Shootout, but the Shootout File is
already well under way, so it will probably be fully
Steve,
I didn't realize Mike had modified his exalted carrier set to LW. He used
in the one active device MW contest before last and won, if memory serves,
in 2005. Here's the description. He is a almost savant without the idiot
part when it comes to these homebrew radios and he sure makes a
Hi Gary
As you've mentioned, the Canadian price of the SRF-59 in Canada is about
double that of Amazon ($30 vs $15). However, the opposite is true of
SRF-S84. Sony Canada has the radio for $50.
http://www.sonystyle.ca/commerce/servlet/ProductDetailDisplay?storeId=10001;
Gary,
Thanks. You've saved me a little $$.
73 Gil
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I was in Greenwood today and decided to spin the dial on the car radio.
WJES, Saluda South Carolina now on 1200kHz with 10KW Day, 6500 Critical and
4 Watts Non Directional (Used to be 350W Day only on 1190kHz). puts a very
good signal into Greenwood and it is quite audible, with a slight bit of
Hey all, Got chqr 770 a few nights ago with a fiar sig. here in suth wyo. Also
got chu on hf.(their time station, like our wwv) Nice to hear from our friends
up north. Good dx to all, Robbie in dn51
Just one last note on this - I got this in my in box today. So if you want a
QSL card, here is the way to go for it. If you are not a ham or don't have
an existing QSL card, I'm pretty sure you could create a simple SWL card and
mail it to them and that would suffice.
It sure was an interesting
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2008 Jan 22 2103 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 22 January follow.
Solar flux 70 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 2.
The
Hi Jim,
Yes, I got the same e mail. I sent a snail ail report to them today.
73,
Patrick
Patrick Martin
KAVT Reception Manager
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I figured it was a mass mailing, but for those who did not send an e-mail
report I figured this might give them a little more incentive. My report
will go out to them tomorrow. Let's hope the QSLs start coming back
reasonably soon!
73s, Jim
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Yesterday, my wife I were up in the boonies somewhere west of
Sacramento and I did a bit of dxing on the way back home around
3:45-4:15 pm. Sunset conditions were pretty good as it was cloudy,
dusky raining. What I did notice was the IBOC 'White Noise'
indicating that the Sacto stations on
Here on the Ga. coast Bonaire is coming in FB on the xtl radio. Dual
language translation. I thought they announced Portuguese and English, but
sure sounds like SS to me.
Gil
Xtl radio
160 random wire, up 70 feet.
Savannah Ga
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Thanks Jim,
I received the same e-mail. Did hear a few blips of
morse code, although I seriously doubt that I heard
any echo from the moon.
Still, a thrilling experience and one I hope is
repeated sometime again.
VY73 de Joe
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Just one last note on this
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2008 Jan 23 0004 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 22 January follow.
Solar flux 70 and mid-latitude A-index 1.
The
Ok, just a few loggings tonight, all heard using the
SRF-59 with a Realistic SP-150 (instead of headphones)
620 WRJZ Knoxville TN (presumed), 1/23/08, 9:45 EST,
religious talk by man, weak signal between CFCO 630
and WTVN 610, not new but it's been several years
730 CKAC Montreal QC
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Shanghai Radio Dial 1941
Radio listeners in Shanghai had forty local radio stations to choose
from in 1941, the year that 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Maltese Falcon'
were top movie box office hits in America,
Joe,
The Canadians like Rob Ross and Allen Willie really are cleaning up on
Ultralight DX, and certainly deserve all the awards they will get. They are
truly phenomenal.
But here on the west coast, the only two DXers who have received TP's
on Ultralight Radios are...two
Leading up to the announcement of a third CD Series from Ian McFarland,
the website DXer.ca proudly unveils this never before heard footage from
1981 - this is audio from the building blocks of an SRI - RCI joint
program for the Radio Canada Shortwave Club.
Limited time only in 16kbps mp3 - the
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