"Simon Mason" wrote in message
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For me, DX is a funciton of both power distance and power.
Low power stations that are closer can be much more difficult
then a higher power distance station.


It also depends on the frequency. For example, FM and TV DXers exist. In
summer during a tropo here in the UK, FM DX catches include RDS identified
Italian and Spanish stations.

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Good catch.

Yes, I remember back in the early fifties, as a teenager, I used to stay up
late (during the summer), sometimes well after midnight waiting for the
local (Philadelphia, PA) TV stations to sign off, looking for stations (DX
or otherwise) on adjacent channels as well as my home channels. Once, I
loged KRLD-TV in Texas (Dallas, I think). I also picked up a wrestling
match where the announcer was speaking Spanish. All of this done with a
simple VHF dipole antenna.

Later, as a young married man, I erected an 18 element Log Periodic V
antenna w/rotor in southern New Jersey. During good conditions, I would
routinely pick up New York and Connecticut and occasionally when the wind
was blowing the right way, swing the antenna southward and get Baltimore, MD
and Washington, DC.

HankG