Michel Bartolone (FtForger)

Stations Heard: 20

The small coil at the left is the wave trap coil. Its connected to the cap thats laying on its back (it won't stay in position if its upright). The center coil is the antenna tuner coil, attached to the multigang cap just to the right of the cap on its back, and furthest to the right is the tank coil, attached to the large AVC towards the right side of the bottom rail. The trap coil is one of the two strands of 24ga speaker wire (all I had available at the moment), 35 turns wound on a 50 count CD cake box top, the antenna tuner coil is 50 turns of one strand of 16ga speaker wire on a 100 count CD-R cake box top, and the tank coil is 57 turns of the other strand of 16Ga speaker wire on a similar CD-R cake box, with taps at 7, 17, 27, 37, and 47 turns. The diode is marked "G1" or maybe "G7", or the G COULD be a 6, and was scavenged from a Philco/FORD TT-154 car radio tuner. The coil rack/rails are a recycled/repurposed tray table stand with a couple pieces of scrap oak my younger brother had laying around. You can see my clevite brush phones hanging on the left cross bar of the rail rack. Over the top of the left end of the center coil, on the window frame, you can see my antenna to ground shorting device.

Log

 Time is CDT.
Location: Burlington, WI
          Latitude:    N 42 40 40
         Longitude:    W 88 16 33

     Contest log for LW-MW Xtal set Class

 Date     #   Time Station Freq.   Location          Distance (km)
7/25/08  001  2030  WTMJ    620    Milwaukee, WI         17.48
         002  2031  WGN     720    Chicago, IL           76.65
         003  2031  WBBM    780    Chicago, IL           79.08
         004  2032  WISN   1130    Milwaukee, WI         18.06
         005  2042  WOKY    920    Milwaukee, WI         37.28
7/26/08  006  2120  WSCR    670    Chicago, WI           84.4
         007  2259  WCCO    830    Minneapolis, MN      492.02
         008  2300  WHAS    840    Louisville, KY       546.83
7/30/08  009  2134  WHO    1040    DesMoines, IA        433.35
7/31/08  010  2314  WJR     760    Detroit, MI          260.44
8/02/08  011  2300  WYLL   1160    Chicago, IL           78.33
8/05/08  012  2119  WLS     890    Chicago, IL          129.62
8/06/08  013  2000  WSSP   1250    Milwaukee, WI         34.61
8/08/08  014  2130  WLW     700    Cincinatti, OH       496.35
         015  2148  KXEL   1540    Waterloo, IA         327.54
         016  2200  CBW     990    Winnipeg, MB        1065.00
         017  2359  CHWO    740    Toronto, ON          693.24
8/10/08  018  1500  WZRK   1550    Lake Geneva, WI       13.8
         019  2134  WTAM   1100    Cleveland, OH        571.22
         020  2111  KMOX   1120    St. Louis            464.58

had at least 3 other stations I was not able to ID
all on 8/08/08  
one French around 1000Khz, time 2345
one Spanish just a bit higher than the French, time 2350
one Asian language..probably Chinese, a bit below 1000Khz, time 2359