Re: [IRCA] What's with this ultralight stuff?

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello Leonard,
 
     You can feel free to blame me for all this  ultralight stuff.  I was a 
typical, casual AM-DXer until about a year ago,  when I bought a cheap $17 Sony 
SRF-59 Walkman, and found out I could hear 3  Japanese and Korean TP stations 
with it (JOIB-747, JOAK-594  and HLCA-972).  It was a phenomenal thrill, and 
I wrote a lengthy  review of the SRF-59 (now posted on DXer.Ca), which 
apparently started the  Ultralight radio boom a year ago.
 
     Back then, a lot of guys must have thought I was  nuts.  But then they 
bought SRF-59's (and other Ultralights), and found out  they make the same 
amazing receptions.  To show appreciation for  Colin Newell's support on DXer.Ca, 
I sent out a few free SRF-59 samples to  Canada, which has now become a true 
hot spot of Ultralight radio  activity.  Our Yahoo Group site (ultralightdx) 
now has well over 100  members, and we are the fasting growing segment of the 
AM-DX community.
 
     For the few remaining skeptics, I strongly  recommend that you give it a 
try.  Today's pocket radios have phenomenal  improvements in IC chips, RF 
circuitry and digital design.  They can run  circles around the pocket portables 
of the 60's, 70's and 80's.  Stock  (unmodified) Ultralight radios have 
received every continent in the  world from right here in North America, and the 
DXers involved in such  thrilling receptions (including myself) have become the 
most enthusiastic  AM-DXers on the planet.
 
     73,  Gary  DeBock   
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