Dan McGillis
2009 JFET

Description

For the ‘ 09 contest I used the little JFET regen I’ve been fiddling with.

Coupled it to a simple Tuggle antenna tuner.

It pulled-in my weakest daytime stations and it had plenty of selectivity, so I’ll call it a success.

It’s kind of magical that so few parts can hear so much.

Couldn’t do much listening in the evenings. We were either away someplace - or there was a thunderstorm. There sure were a lot of thunderstorms around here this year. And the signals seemed weaker than in the winter. Guess that’s normal (?)

Thanks Rob and Dave for putting on this contest. It’s fun, something to look forward to, and a good motivator to build something.



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Log

'09 RadioBoard HomeBrew RadioContest Log
Points = # ID'd stations = 87
Dan McGillis
near Allentown,PA

DATE T I M E FREQ STATION
# M-D-09 Local khz call
1 7/24/2009 1252 560 wfil
2 7/24/2009 1259 580 whp
3 7/24/2009 1311 590 warm
4 7/24/2009 1312 610 wip
5 7/24/2009 1313 630 wejl
6 7/24/2009 1314 640 wwjz
7 7/24/2009 1315 660 wfan
8 7/24/2009 1321 690 wphe
9 7/24/2009 1322 710 wor
10 7/24/2009 1327 730 wnak
11 7/24/2009 1335 750 wqor
12 7/24/2009 1337 770 wabc
13 7/24/2009 1342 830 weeu
14 7/24/2009 1343 840 wvpo
15 7/24/2009 1344 860 wwdb
16 7/24/2009 1345 880 wcbs
17 7/24/2009 1346 900 wurd
18 7/24/2009 1349 910 wbzu
19 7/24/2009 1350 920 wphy
20 7/24/2009 1353 940 wadv
21 7/24/2009 1354 950 wpen
22 7/24/2009 1355 960 wply
23 7/24/2009 1357 970 wwdj
24 7/24/2009 1358 980 wilk
25 7/24/2009 1359 990 wntp
26 7/24/2009 1400 1010 wins
27 7/24/2009 1402 1040 wnje
28 7/24/2009 1403 1060 kyw
29 7/24/2009 1409 1080 wtic
30 7/24/2009 1410 1090 wbal
31 7/24/2009 1411 1100 wgpa
32 7/24/2009 1412 1110 wnap
33 7/24/2009 1413 1130 wbbr
34 7/24/2009 1417 1160 wbyn
35 7/24/2009 1418 1170 wwtr
36 7/24/2009 1428 1180 wfyl
37 7/24/2009 1429 1190 wlib
38 7/24/2009 1430 1210 wpht
39 7/24/2009 1433 1230 weex
40 7/24/2009 1435 1250 wmtr
41 7/24/2009 1436 1260 wfjs
42 7/24/2009 1438 1270 wlbr
43 7/24/2009 1439 1280 wado
44 7/24/2009 1442 1320 wtkz
45 7/24/2009 1446 1370 wpaz
46 7/24/2009 1447 1400 west
47 7/24/2009 1448 1410 wlsh
48 7/24/2009 1451 1420 wcoj
49 7/24/2009 1453 1440 wnpv
50 7/24/2009 1454 1470 wsan
51 7/24/2009 1504 1540 wnwr
52 7/24/2009 1506 1550 witk
53 7/24/2009 1507 1560 wqew
54 7/24/2009 1509 1570 wisp
55 7/24/2009 1512 1600 whol
56 7/24/2009 1514 1630 wpmq427
57 7/24/2009 1516 1640 wpnx700
58 7/24/2009 1517 1660 wwru
59 7/24/2009 1518 1680 wttm
60 7/24/2009 1522 1690 wptx
61 7/24/2009 2251 1650 whkt
62 7/24/2009 2303 1520 wwkb
63 7/24/2009 2306 1500 wwwt
64 7/25/2009 235 1140 wrva
65 7/25/2009 241 1170 wwva
66 7/25/2009 244 1180 wham
67 7/25/2009 249 1220 whkw
68 7/28/2009 120 690 cinf
69 7/28/2009 122 700 wlw
70 7/28/2009 126 730 ckac
71 7/28/2009 127 740 cfzm
72 7/28/2009 128 750 wsb
73 7/28/2009 129 760 w j r
74 7/28/2009 132 800 cklw
75 7/28/2009 133 810 wgy
76 7/28/2009 135 820 wnyc
77 7/28/2009 140 860 cjbc
78 7/28/2009 144 870 whcu
79 7/28/2009 147 890 wls
80 7/28/2009 148 900 chml
81 7/28/2009 153 930 wben
82 7/28/2009 157 940 cinw
83 7/28/2009 203 1030 wbz
84 7/28/2009 207 1100 wtam
85 7/28/2009 208 1110 wbt
86 7/28/2009 213 1430 wnsw
87 7/28/2009 217 1530 wcky