Episode 16 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 12 - December 26, 2025

HOUR 1 it's the end of the year, and that means it is time to look back at 2025 and reflect on a year of DX. AM, FM, NDB, NOAA WX DX.....it's been quite a year! We finally got our Airspy HF+D paired with a splitter from our big Southern-facing KAZ. Let's just say, the CCC and that antenna are a match made in DX heaven. And it is already producing for us! I spent the week working on my brand new online logbooks! These will be embedded at a future Web site I am working on for Northshore Studios. But, both MW and FM have shiny new dashboards thanks to Looker Studio. And they are already coming in handy during my DX sessions! Common mode chokes? Nah, we are getting ready to strangle some common mode noise around here thanks to 10 brand new TDK N30 toroids. Yup. TEN! HOUR 2 Tropo has been flaring and looks to be continuing the next few days and not just here on the Gulf Coast. Let's spend a little time talking FM - besides, this is prime time for a little mid-Winter Es opening action! Improving the Low-noise vertical? Let's throw down some radials! I finally did it, I downloaded Linrad. Now, anyone know of a university engineering course that I can take to learn to use it? :) NEW CHALLENGE We launch into Week 12 of Season 5 of our MW Frequency Challenge with a return to a dedicated frequency range: 1350-1360 kHz. 1350 is our least "covered" frequency in the past five years with only 58.5% of licensed U.S. stations reported by our DXers. Let's remedy that, shall we? DX TESTS 1280 WNAM-WI is going off the air permanently - but not before a nod to the DX community with a special DX Test. We have the details to share. TOH DX Hour 1 - We will actually be checking FM, because the tropo conditions seem to be getting going Hour 2 & 3 - We will be checking our new challenge frequencies of 1350 and 1360.