Actually, I would not say that's on topic.

There's a whole hierarchy for amateur radio, rec.radio.amateur.* including
one for DX.

It's not fair to listeners to bring most amateur radio topics to
rec.radio.shortwave This newsgroup is intended for monitoring of
radio (and though it's got "shortwave" in the title, it was intended
right from the beginning to not be limited to shortave, hence AM and
FM broadcast fits in).

So in trying to put an on-topic thread here, you've actually gone
off-topic.

Michael


Opinions are like assholes....