It may feel strange that I’m about to suggest looking for North American DX during the Summer heatwaves in NW Europe. But that’s exactly what I am going to do. Unsurprisingly most DXers look for US daytimer signals in the winter. But between September and March DX opportunities are set by the position of the …
This mini-article is aimed at those DXers of any level of experience who wish to improve their understanding of the Spanish language in order to recognise and transcribe station identification announcements. During the summer months many Latin American stations are audible on the Clashmore KiwiSDR (aka the Barry Davies Memorial Receive – BDMR). In the …
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The All Time Lists for 2021 have been updated. This year there is an additional Pacific list, containing logs from Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Kiribati. The Pacific list would also include any logs from PNG, Solomon Islands and the Pacific countries (should there be any). The Pacific logs also remain in the respective previous …
Barry Davies was a long standing member of the Circle and sadly passed away in 2021. He left a generous legacy to the club which we have used to set-up a KiwiSDR optimised for medium wave reception at one of the best DX locations in the UK – MWC’s Treasurer Martin Hall’s Clashmore QTH in …
by Steve Whitt It is likely that reception of MW radio signals from Australia (and New Zealand more so) in the UK should benefit from something called antipodal focusing. But what exactly is antipodal focusing and does it really exist? This topic started as a thought experiment many years ago and I revisited it recently, …
Hearing US and Canadian stations in Europe varies from being very easy (sometimes audible on a car radio or portable set) to extremely difficult. Based on loggings submitted by UK DXers, and informed a little by my own personal experience, the US states and Canadian provinces are grouped below into four categories. The easiest are …
I went on a 1 man 1 XYL 1 dog DXpedition to Kilmuir Isle of Skye end of November 2018; there are two Kilmuirs on Skye – we were at the one just north of Uig and stayed at Tawmans cottage. There is a field I could have used (for antennas) but there were cattle …