I would like to propose a medium wave radio dxing challenge to run for the rest of the year. This is not a competition and it is not about beating anybody else except yourself, it is a trust based

Over the past 15 years my hobbies have been amajor issue for me. As a teenager I became heavy involved in the radio scanninghobby, which lead me to UHF CB and then me obtaining my amateur radio

Well……I consider myself a Dxer, an SWL, and I am defintiely a Casual Listener at times too!!! I am also a HAM and even worked many years ago as a Police Radio Dispatcher!! However……..If you

Thanks for all the replies, they made for interesting reading. I guess it is best just to call it hobby radio and be done with it.

I consider myself a DX'er ( if I listened on SW, I'd consider myself an SWL ) unless I am transmitting and receiving. But by having a license, I am a ham regardless. Russ Edmunds 15 mi NNW of

It has been a few months since I was able DX and post a message here. I had emergency reconstructive surgery on my ankle in November. After weeks of rehab and therapy I was finally able to return

Yes, there are amateurs who transmit and receive, and then there are people who DX LW, MW, SW, FM broadcast, VHF/UHF (scanning), and TV. Sometimes all of the above, or different bands for different

Hello All, Asian results this morning were kind of a watered down version of yesterday, with many of the same TP's showing up, but at weaker levels. Whereas peak Asian propagation yesterday seemed

We're basically "Listeners" or Dx'ers. Amateur Radio is understood to be licensed operators in the Ham bands. Loosely speaking, we might be called amateurs, but "hobbyist" is a better fit. Gene

I feel about my listening interests being confused with "Amateur Radio" the way Amateurs feel about their interests being confused with CB radio ;-) An Amateur (I'm one too btw) once told me that

I try to look at it this way: is radio magic? If yes, then you're in the club. From Wikipedia. Note the etymology: An amateur (French amateur "lover of", from Old French and ultimately from Latin

Agreed! Now I do enjoy Long Wave, AM, Shortwave, and FM DXing, but it is a whole different Hobby than Amateur Radio where I like to hang out on the AM Windows and use Home Brew and converted Broadcast

IMHO, if you don't need an Amateur Radio license to do what you're doing, then it ain't Amateur Radio. 73, Stan, WA1LOU On 3/11/2014 6:06 AM, Paul Logan wrote:

If you were going to categorize these, "Radio" would be at the top and then there would be sub-divisions. I know Ham radio operators that do almost zero transmitting. They have big receive antenna's

I view everything to do with listening (apart from listening to hams) as a completely separate thing. Paul Logan, Lisnaskea, N. Ireland Listening Homepage: http://band2dx.webs.com/ Video:

A quick question for everybody: is amateur / ham radio only the transmitting side or could you class short wave / medium wave listening as part of this? I guess my question is how can this side of the

Nice report Gary, it is good to hear that the signals are starting to improve for you. Paul

Well done Allen, it is always good to add new stations to the logs.

Hello All, As Dennis reported, it was a very good morning for Asian TP's, with 738-BEL2 in Taiwan managing its best signal here since the start of the new year. In total darkness around 1310 there

A bit of success on the weekend as two new additions were added to the Ultralight logbook as follows: 　 1089 - RUSSIA - Vesti FM, Tbilisskaya 22:58 UTC 3/8/14 w/ man in Russian news commentary (