Best/Strangest DX catches

[wa2ise]

Back around 1971 heard a Jesuscaster near 1520KHz from Iowa. I was in New Jersey just outside of NYC. About the only K callsign I ever heard from NJ (aside from the one in Philly).

[electronjohn]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Back around 1971 heard a Jesuscaster near 1520KHz from Iowa. I was in New Jersey just outside of NYC. About the only K callsign I ever heard from NJ (aside from the one in Philly).

I'm betting that was KXEL, Waterloo.

Best catch I ever had was back in the 60s. I had an aircraft receiver that covered approx. 150-400kHz and in the dead of winter with about 800' of wire strung tree to tree picked up Radio Luxembourg on 233kHz.

Of course, they were running about a megawatt or so. That might've helped

[uxwbill]

I've had the occasional good fortune to catch over the air digital TV broadcasts that were being propagated over a long distance, usually from northern Missouri.

Probably the "best" DXing experience I've ever had, though, was in late 2014. I was cruising down the road, scrolling through the FM dial when suddenly KLOU came in loud and clear! I'm only about 300 miles away in Illinois, so this was quite a surprise and definitely like nothing I'd seen before.

Reception was clear as a bell, and even the RDS data was coming in perfectly.

Luckily I met up with my father and asked to borrow his phone to get some video. The reception window stayed open for hours. I later tried some stereo receivers and (very good) standalone tuners hooked up to an outdoor antenna, but none of them managed the outstanding performance of the radio in my truck.