Re: [IRCA] 1470-CJVB Reception on Ultralight Radio in Japan

[d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Bob, 
 
<<<Â Please don't take this in the wrong way, but as the owner/operator of a showroom stock, barefoot ULR, what is a "barefoot" ULR?ÂÂ >>> 
 
A very good question, actually! 
 
A straight barefoot ULR is a stock model exactly as it came from the factory. Obviously, a PL-380 with a transplanted 3" FSL antenna doesn't fall into this category. But it is still a "stand alone" DXing portable, without anyÂgain boost from an externally connected (or inductively coupled)Âhigh-gain antenna. ItÂis fully portable, similar to a stock ULR.ÂItÂcertainly can be boosted by external antennas, but most of the DXers choose to use these models in their fully portable form, where their unique combination of high sensitivity and selectivity can result in surprising transoceanic receptions. For want of a better term, when these radios are used in this way without any external antenna boost they can beÂconsidered in a semi-barefoot category, or "barefoot," as opposed to when these same modelsÂare boosted by high-gain external antennas. TheÂsame term might be used for stand-alone 7.5" loopstick models when they are used in a fully portable way. Of course forÂULR Award purposes, all of these models fall into the "Unlimited" category, since the Tecsun engineers would probably suffer cardiac arrest if they saw them. 
 
73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) 
 
 
 
 
 
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Bob Coomler W7SWLTucson, AZ 
The confusion 

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