Reception in the second half of September has improved considerably over the first two weeks as the new stations are often coming in from farther away. I did move the BOG to a north south direction an

Reception has been good this past month. There have been many openings in the 500 mile range and this has allowed me to add quite a few new regional stations. I have been rotating the BOG about 30 deg

Regional reception continues to be good with a few new stations from the surrounding states and the real DX is there but at a very low signal level and usually buried in with the semi-locals. Still, w

Good conditions continued on 8/22 and 8/24. I changed the direction of the BOG about 20 degrees further north – towards Michigan and Iowa and it really paid off during the sunset hours. The big nation

It's time for me to start the new DX season. After a summer of on and off trying to record some of the semilocals that I missed last winter I did pick up 6 new stations with the BOG oriented in a Nort

Hi everybody, It's been a few months since I reported in. After losing two 1,000 foot BOI (Beverage On Ice) antennas in late January to 4 wheeler ice fishermen, I had to hang everything up for the sea

The conditions were right. The east coast was coming in strong off the back end of the 1000 ft. BOG. All the big guns were dominating their channels but I didn't pay any special attention to them. I s

It was down in the noise but it was a clear channel. There it was KGHL, 790 AM, Billings Montana. I caught them at their 9PM (CST) ID - "…serving eastern Montana and northern Iowa for over 80 years, t

Hi everybody, I have a new addition to the radio shack. I have added a BOG. Early last month I decided to make a change. My station count hit a plateau and logging anything new became a real challenge

Hi everybody, The extra hours I've been putting in to listening have really been paying off. The big milestone of 400 stations logged has been broken and I now can set my sights at 450 although it is

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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