I was going to say the same thing..

Commercial radio, with it's purpose built towers and antenna's and thousands of watts is not much of a struggle - especially with a good receiver.

The astonishing thing is that you would waste your money on a receiver...

The real DX now is on the HF / VHF - Amateur Radio Bands...

A real catch would be to work all 50 states and all of the grid squares on 6 meters. The reason being that no one uses 6 anymore and there isn't anyone to talk to anymore unless there is a VHF contest.

The world has changed and people have moved on and the old hams are dead and the new hams just don't get it anymore...

Digital modes isn't much different then using a modem and a dial up connection and the internet.. Either the signal is there or it isn't.

2 meters packet isn't even hard to do with all the packet networks and stations set up. I don't really get it, because what are you going to send?
I would quickly run out of things to talk about...

GET yourself a technician license manual and study and get your amateur radio license and get on the air and participate instead of just listening.