What I do remember from early Saturday morning (after a long evening troubleshooting a remote control circuit) is a station on 1540 fading UP for the top of the hour ID. What I don't remember is who it was!
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I am 17 and I love Dxing! I logged 69 Stations during the E-skip Season! I discovered Dxing with my Weather Radio. One night I was scanning the Weather Band and I noticed signals coming in on every frequency. I heard Kerrville, Tx Weather Radio Transmitter over 270 miles away! I was very surprised by this and ever since that I have been hooked. I created a logbook last year of all the stations I have received via ducting or skip.
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A lot depends on the circumstances. I have several positive DX stories ----
(1) When people in my dreary hometown of Midland, TX found out you could get Dallas FM in the 70's, yagis connected to top of the line receivers sprung up all over town.
(2) When my adopted daughter in Florida found out I wasn't connecting her receiver to my new yagi - she was mad because she had static on her favorite station 100 miles away. I got a splitter. Later, when she moved out she was upset she wasn't getting that vintage Kenwood to keep. I found something newer that would still work on her station.
(3) A friend found out I had put a narrow ceramic filter in my car radio and it got many more stations that the radio in her car. She didn't ask - she virtually DEMANDED I put those filters in her radio.
(4) When WWIA 88.5 signed on in Palm Bay, FL, I couldn't keep up with demand from Z-88.3 Orlando listeners to put narrow ceramic filters in their radios so they could get rid of WWIA interference. WPOZ finally ended up buying WWIA.
(5) My other daughter wanted a radio that could get Radio Disney Dallas when we went to visit her grandfather in Lubbock. A GE SR-3 worked nicely, even garnering some interest from patrons to the neighborhood pool, many of which were teens and pre-teens. There was a run on GE SR-3's in Lubbock that day! Some of them went on to discover Radio Disney also could be heard from 1160 in San Antonio and 1690 from Denver - depending on the time of year and time of day. The last I heard from those kids, there were over a dozen of them and they were telling other kids about DX'ing Radio Disney and other stations.
(6) My daughter was interested in DX'ing stations from her former home town after we moved. One of her friends was fascinated we could get her low power hometown Huntsville station all the way down in Houston.
And so forth. It is almost ALWAYS about the music. You can stream, you can Pandora, you can iPod - but NOTHING beats the convenience of turning on a radio and having it work with no fuss on distant stations. Set up the antenna once, get the right radio once - and - DONE. No web sites to type in, no dropouts or stalls when the internet gets slow. No data charges.
(1) When people in my dreary hometown of Midland, TX found out you could get Dallas FM in the 70's, yagis connected to top of the line receivers sprung up all over town.
(2) When my adopted daughter in Florida found out I wasn't connecting her receiver to my new yagi - she was mad because she had static on her favorite station 100 miles away. I got a splitter. Later, when she moved out she was upset she wasn't getting that vintage Kenwood to keep. I found something newer that would still work on her station.
(3) A friend found out I had put a narrow ceramic filter in my car radio and it got many more stations that the radio in her car. She didn't ask - she virtually DEMANDED I put those filters in her radio.
(4) When WWIA 88.5 signed on in Palm Bay, FL, I couldn't keep up with demand from Z-88.3 Orlando listeners to put narrow ceramic filters in their radios so they could get rid of WWIA interference. WPOZ finally ended up buying WWIA.
(5) My other daughter wanted a radio that could get Radio Disney Dallas when we went to visit her grandfather in Lubbock. A GE SR-3 worked nicely, even garnering some interest from patrons to the neighborhood pool, many of which were teens and pre-teens. There was a run on GE SR-3's in Lubbock that day! Some of them went on to discover Radio Disney also could be heard from 1160 in San Antonio and 1690 from Denver - depending on the time of year and time of day. The last I heard from those kids, there were over a dozen of them and they were telling other kids about DX'ing Radio Disney and other stations.
(6) My daughter was interested in DX'ing stations from her former home town after we moved. One of her friends was fascinated we could get her low power hometown Huntsville station all the way down in Houston.
And so forth. It is almost ALWAYS about the music. You can stream, you can Pandora, you can iPod - but NOTHING beats the convenience of turning on a radio and having it work with no fuss on distant stations. Set up the antenna once, get the right radio once - and - DONE. No web sites to type in, no dropouts or stalls when the internet gets slow. No data charges.
rbrucecarter5 said:
But your examples are about listening to content that is only available on stations 100+ or so away, not straining ones ears to hear Radio Slobbovia on 666 kHz at 10 PM.
Where I grew up in Indiana, everything on the AM dial at night was DX except for the one local Bloomington station. But the desire to listen to those stations was about listening to their programming (a certain DJ, ballgame, etc.), not the jollies of just hearing a station in Chicago, New York, or wherever. The novelty of DXing just for DXing's sake wore off very early in my ham/SWL career.
purpledevil said:It's never bothered me that others got it or not, guys. It just hit home when he basically pointed out that my hobby is being phased out due to technological advancements. I suppose I always knew it, I just never realized the scope of it.
Oh, come on, Icangelp...my Lionel too? Geez... :-\
I know. It's getting hard for a guy to have wholesome fun anymore.
I still have the O gauge Lionel Santa Fe Super Chief diesel train set my dad, I mean The Claus, gave me on my 11the birthday.
I am fortunate to have a friend from my high school days who shares my love of shortwave and MW DX He is a bit weird though. ;D
DavidEduardo said:
Well stated.
I am the curious type. I always have been. I love gaining knowledge. To me, geography and history are fascinating subjects. Music is important to me.
DX'ing was a natural way to gain knowledge, satisfy my curiosity, not to mention bring me some great Top 40 listening.
The internet has given me unlimited access to the subjects I love, and has answered almost every question I have every had, and I love listening to the world's radio stations on my smartphone.
I still DX. As long as there is a distant radio station to listen to, I probably will.
Stephen King wrote, "The world has moved on." I think it has, or at least it is in the process of moving on.
Icangelp said:
But Miranda just sent me a note to tell me to write Blake's name right.
Non-satellite standards (Sinatra etc...)
I was Jared's age in the late 90's. I only wish I had started my log at 17 instead of waiting until I was 20. I remember the late summer/early fall of 2000, 2001 and 2002 all being stellar for DX. Still to this day, some of those stations haven't been heard. One that comes to mind is 104.3 Eldon, IA, heard in my car.
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rbrucecarter5
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KeithE4 said:
Exactly. Nothing in the definition of DX, however, pins it down to people trying to get distant stations for the sake of hearing distant stations, getting QSL cards, etc. There are people DX'ing all over the place who do it without even knowing the term DX. Even though the US is increasingly urbanized, there are still tens of millions of people living out in the middle of nowhere, and I guarantee not all of them have broadband internet service, satellite receivers, etc. A fair number of them are out there on limited incomes and over the air is free. And there are other people like me who are disgusted by local radio formats, but there are better stations in nearby cities. So - I listen to them. I'll never get a QSL card - just want the music. I know what I have done. That is enough, I'm not out to prove it or have bragging rights.
Hello. I'm 25 and I love dxing. So I guess I'm one of very few my age that cares about this stuff. DXing has always been a part of my life. I have always loved hearing how far radio stations go and what stations I can pick up at certain times.
Right on, man! I think it's awesome that so many young people like myself are continuing with the hobby.
One thing I like to do is go on a short DX'pedition. Go to the next town over from me and listen to their radio dial. Granted many of the 50kw stations are the same, but there are many variances with class A's and especially translators in just a short 25 mile drive. I also like to drive until I hear the absolute last gasp of a local translator. The hills in Hillsdale County serve as a pretty sweet place to catch sniffs of Kalamazoo and Battle Creek xltrs (granted they're on open channels).
One thing I like to do is go on a short DX'pedition. Go to the next town over from me and listen to their radio dial. Granted many of the 50kw stations are the same, but there are many variances with class A's and especially translators in just a short 25 mile drive. I also like to drive until I hear the absolute last gasp of a local translator. The hills in Hillsdale County serve as a pretty sweet place to catch sniffs of Kalamazoo and Battle Creek xltrs (granted they're on open channels).
It's so refreshing to hear how young people are interested in DXing!
I never would have thought it possible today with all the other available electronic gadgets we didn't have in the past.
Now imagine an AM band where you could not only listen to a lot more distant stations because the frequencies were not so loaded with many signals but you also heard top 40 music as well.
I know, I probably sound like an old guy telling his children "Back in my day, we walked to school in the snow ... uphill ... both ways."
I never would have thought it possible today with all the other available electronic gadgets we didn't have in the past.
Now imagine an AM band where you could not only listen to a lot more distant stations because the frequencies were not so loaded with many signals but you also heard top 40 music as well.
I know, I probably sound like an old guy telling his children "Back in my day, we walked to school in the snow ... uphill ... both ways."
gar fla said:It's so refreshing to hear how young people are interested in DXing!
I never would have thought it possible today with all the other available electronic gadgets we didn't have in the past.
Now image an AM band where you could not only listen to a lot more distant stations because the frequencies were not so loaded with many signals but you also heard top 40 music as well.
I know, I probably sound like an old guy telling his children "Back in my day, we walked to school in the snow ... uphill ... both ways."
And, actually when school closures happened when snow was at least a foot deep! Now, one or two little flakes, and not only will schools close, but the entire daytime lineup will be preempted on all of the Big 3 affiliates here in Seattle for hype coverage.
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I'm 36 and I've enjoyed DXing since I was a teen - I had an analog FM tuner with great selectivity and I could DX frequencies like 100.9 or 105.1 in Lorain, OH despite WMMS 100.7 and then WZLE 104.9 being a local station. Then I started TV DXing. Always enjoyed the hobby and it's great to see other people my age and younger who enjoy it too!
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