Beginner DXing AM help needed!

[EAFrizzle]

I've never used one, but the principle is the same. Bigger aperture and ferrites increase the sensitivity to the magnetic field component of the signal, ferrites just use less physical space. A bigger aperture also increases the footprint that can 'see' the electrical component better. Folks that use HF wire loops deal with this all the time. Sometimes you just don't have the real estate to make a circle or square with the full-wave wire, and just fit it in however. But there's a noticeable difference when you get to spread one out properly.

 

[D31245]

For AM/MW DXing with a table-top radio, I use a SELECT-A-TENNA. Works well - all on a small turntable you can find on Amazon.

They come up for sale from time to time.

Select-A-Tenna 541 Antenna Intensitronics Corp.; Ashland WI, build |Radiomuseum.org

Select-A-Tenna 541 Antenna Intensitronics Corp.; Ashland WI, build 1971 ??, 4 pictures, United States of America , schematics, tubes, semiconductors, Antenna

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[ditto1958]

The quality of AM DX-ing depends an awful lot on where a person lives. Currently I live in an area where there are many local stations that I can get as well as clear channel signals from up to 200 miles away. At night sometimes signals from big stations can be heard from cities hundreds of miles from hear and even from Canada.