Hi! New here + 1950s DX Photos...

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You don't always need the best antenna or tv but it sure helps. TV DX is come and go. One minute you are watching a station from hundreds of miles away and the next minute it's gone. When I was kid I did it with our main TV, a GE KE chassis console. This was in the late 70s/early 80s. I just kept flipping the dial. While waiting for something to show up it was fun to watch stations sign-on or sign-off. Some did a better job than others. WJLA-7 in Washington had a great montage of DC historical sites with Ray Charles singing "America". Local WMDT-47 had a great helicopter shot of a worker near the top of its tower. I remember WBOC-16 running about 10 minutes straight of public service spots before signing off. If I stayed up long enough there might only be a couple stations left on the air-I remember WMAR-2 in Baltimore would stay on; they ran the old show "Private Secretary" at about 3:30am. There are still some stations that sign-off, but I myself sign-off too early nowadays! In the early 80s we got a new GE set with digital tuning and it never did as good. I mostly did AM broadcast band dx'ing. That's easy enough to do-you can just jot down a list from 540-1700 and one by one see which slots you can fill in.