Good SW DX-ing Here

[ditto1958]

Last night and this afternoon here in Wisconsin I had some pretty darn good shortwave sessions. In addition to all the US Southeastern coast stations* I also got signals from Spain, Turkey, France, Italy, Germany.

South America was dead both times, and nothing from China. In all, two enjoyable sessions.

*I tend to take for granted all the SW stations we have here, most of which are religious broadcasts, but I really should try to appreciate them more.

Many US shortwave broadcasts from as far away as Florida have better signals than some of the local AM stations we have here.

 

[eagle2046]

That's pretty good recetion Ditto considering your location. Good on you for your monitoring skills.

 

[ditto1958]

That's pretty good recetion Ditto considering your location. Good on you for your monitoring skills.

Thanks, but I don’t have any particular skills other than hopefully some common sense. The radios I have accumulated are surprisingly good and make it easy to get interesting catches.

When I first went back to DX-ing* I didn’t know how to find anything, but I kept at it, found these forums and learned as I went along.

*As kids we did AM DX-ing at night without knowing there was a name for it. I also had a friend who would invite me over to play with his SW radios.

 

[merlin]

Sad where I am, getting below 30 MHz, the noise increases. Below 15 MHz, the noise goes to S9.
So much for SWLing.

 

[ditto1958]

And, just like that bands were dead last night. The K level went from 1.65 to 4 and headed up to over 5 😥