Eric, your showing of the Wellbrook Loop has ended up costing me some money! As soon as I got home to Australia I went on the net and placed an order! LOL. Cheers, Mark
Sent from my iPad > On 18 Mar 2014, at 11:27 am, "Eric A. Cottrell" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Once again a great Fest! > > I delayed the trip down to get better weather and ended up only getting > caught in a few traffic delays. I had a late dinner at The Persian Grille. > The Chicken Fesenjan was great. > > My room was on the fifth floor and I managed to get exercise over the weekend > by mostly using the stairs. The hospitality suite was on the sixth floor so > it was an easier walk. I liked the hospitality setup. There were two > interesting HF receivers thanks to Dan Robinson. I got to tune in stations > from India, CFRX 6070, etc. I tried for some LW stations at night, but did > not hear anything. > > I recently bought a used Wellbrook ALA1530 loop. I brought it to the Fest to > try out. It worked okay in my room and up in the hospitality suite. I am > thinking of experimenting with some loops after hearing Jef Eichner's talk. I > might bring a HF receiver and a loop for the hospitality suite next year. I > should have setup my Wellbrook in the hospitality suite sooner. > > I found the talks on North Korea very interesting. Thanks for hosting the > talks. > http://www.nknews.org/2014/03/behind-north-koreas-propaganda-curtain/ > > I managed to do some listening above HF and found some interesting digital > radio systems. I used an Icom R2500 with a laptop running dsd. I also used a > Winradio G305e to do some recording of signals. The Winradio also works good > for DRM on HF. > > It seemed quieter with several of my friends not able to attend, but still > not enough time to do everything. > > All too soon there was the banquet, the Pancho Villa broadcast, and time to > head home. It was a nice relaxing trip home. > > Already looking forward to next year. > > 73 Eric > _______________________________________________ > Swlfest mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown > above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Swlfest mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
