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Glen Kiltz

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I first started playing around with AMDX when I finally got a decent-quality radio as a 9 year old in 1968 right after we moved from St Louis MO to Durham NC. My first "DX Catch" was in the same night CBM Montreal, WBZ Boston and WSM Nashville
I got my first shortwave radio, a discount store off brand that was virtually identical to radios sold in Canada under the Simpson-Sears brand
That was 1971 after we had already relocated to Fairfax County Virginia. Remained there till I was an adult and working two jobs
My first shortwave "catch" Was Radio Nederland

In recent years, as Shortwave has largely faded and now AM is doing the same I listen to FM mostly exclusively
I now live in Southern Fauquier County VA and I am essentially free of groundwave AM at n ight
 
Yes Glen, there are all kinds of interference out there. Winter months are always the better months to pick up DX. Are pretty well a DX hobbyist, or engineering, amateur radio? I still enjoy picking up stations now everything is becoming digital at times it takes the fun out of the hunt. Anyway, enjoy the rest of your day and a pleasure to meet you.

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On the subject of interference:
Remember the early days of the X band?
10 PM Eastern coming home from work I could listen to KCJJ all the way from Reston VA to my home in Southern Fauquier County. KKCJJ was 1000 Watts at night. No interference!
In those days WTOP was on 1500AM and they would fade about Centerville and be totally gone before Warrenton.
There was always that place at Reston Parkway and Barron Cameron Ave where if you stopped in exactly the right place you could most nights get KSTP!

Now in 2025 with WPTR in Albany gone from 1540 Most nights I can hear KXEL Waterloo IA from my home on a C Crane desktop radio,
 
Atmospheric conditions have dramatically changed. Propagation rules some how still apply. There are obviously radioactive changes to the magnetic fields. The old CB band around 10 meters has been useless for nearly over 2 decades, sad indeed. I am glad to have more radio guys here that get some of the old fashioned engineering aspects besides a best guess. Someone needs to come up with a way to deGauss some of the atmosphere and fix it, from time to time.. lol

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