Hi everybody, Two new states logged over the past two days. I guess all the planning, maps and lists I made paid off. It's getting hard though as I am running out of new states with powerhouse station

Hi everybody, The wind might be blowing everything around outside but it was quite calm inside. Reception was above average as the northern stations were coming in strong last night with not one but t

Hi everybody, The windy, cold weather continued last night and it did bring in some good DXing. What was unusual was that all the local Chicago stations had a definite nulling direction. I could hear

Hi everybody, Ii is amazing how reception conditions can change over a period of a day. Where the northern stations were booming in two days ago, last night they were much more subdued while the south

Hi everybody, I need advice as to which country I can try for next? I have the US, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Being in the Midwest, TA's and TP's seem out of the question. From the am-dx.com website I s

Hi everybody, Thanks to everybody who gave me advice as to what my next country could be. Last night was another great evening with a good opening to the east around sunset. The big news today is that

Greg, I also hear Spanish on 1710. Constant music but once in a while a girl comes on and says something in Spanish. It is faint on my PL-380 here in Lake Villa (North of Chicago). One day I was out d

Hi everybody, Conditions have been fair to good the past few days. I have been camped out on frequencies which could bring in new states. Nothing new yet but in the process I did record a few regional

Hi everybody, Conditions have been quite good the past few days. I have been camped out on frequencies which could bring in new states. Nothing new yet but in the process I did record a few regional s

Hi everybody, What I really like about this hobby is how unpredictable (at least for me) it is. I get the sunrise and sunset concept but each frequency seems to offer something different. Case in poin

Hi everybody, Unusually good reception to the north on Sunday. After logging two new WI stations it hit me. I pulled out my WI station maps and started going up the dial picking off a good number of n

Hi everybody, Conditions have been up and down over the long holiday weekend. No new states but the number of stations continue to get closer to 300 as I check random frequencies. Below are my logging

The Univ of Il. is running a test, 10 second tone with text now at 4:33AM CST. More details to follow. ED

The test on 1480 kHz. is continuing past 5am. Here is what I know: Test tone for 20 seconds. Pause for 5 seconds. Then a male says - "You're listening to the University of Illinois fighting Illini rad

Hi everybody, It was quite an exciting morning with both the WJBM 1480 kHz. automation error (sounded like a station test with the test tone and dialogue) and also today hitting 300 stations. Below ar

Hi everybody, Reception over the past two weeks has been exceptional. I found that if I set aside 4 hours around sunrise and 4 hours at sunset to listen, the band comes alive with new stations. Someti

Here's a station logging story that you might get a chuckle out of. Last night I woke up about 12:30 AM and couldn't get back to sleep. I got up and turned on the radio wondering what was conditions w

Hi everybody, Reception conditions are still exceptionally good. Must be the bitterly cold snowy weather we are having. I never thought there would be an upside to this weather but being inside has al

The cold weather and snow continue to bring in exceptional reception conditions to the north and northwest. Sorry about the late posting but with getting ready for Christmas I am really behind in tran

Hi everybody, Reception is continuing to be strong to the N and NW with it peaking on 12/16 when it extended to BC. I never knew there were so many Canadian stations out there. Now, many have actually