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Shortwave was really booming in from Asia last night

gar hi

gar hi

For some reason, I've never DXed shortwave after 11pm here In Hawaii before and last night was a bonanza of stations spanning pretty much the entire band, mostly from China.

One station had the strongest signal I've ever had on either my C Crane Skywave or my Grundig G8 that I used to have.

According to shortwaveschedule.com, this signal was from almost 6000 miles away, as it was the only station broadcasting on that frequency at the time.


Don't know if this was just unusual conditions or maybe it's always like that vary late at night this time of year?
 
gar hi said:
For some reason, I've never DXed shortwave after 11pm here In Hawaii before and last night was a bonanza of stations spanning pretty much the entire band, mostly from China.

One station had the strongest signal I've ever had on either my C Crane Skywave or my Grundig G8 that I used to have.

According to shortwaveschedule.com, this signal was from almost 6000 miles away, as it was the only station broadcasting on that frequency at the time.


Don't know if this was just unusual conditions or maybe it's always like that vary late at night this time of year?
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China is a piece of cake of SW.. i hear them all day up and down the band in alaska.
 
I'm only DXing barefoot, of course.

That's why I got the CC Skywave because it's convenient, something you can hold in the palm of your hand.

I could connect it to a longwire antenna, of course, but that would defeat the purpose of the radio, IMO.

The lower end of the shortwave band lights up at night with stations from the mainland and Cuba.

What surprised me last night was that even the upper part of the band had great reception from China and that part of the band is supposed to be better in the daytime than the nighttime.
 
There's no place like it for AM at night, as the dial is loaded with stations from the mainland.

I've done a few videos of it as well.

For example, WWL.


California stations such as KFI, KNBR, KGO, KNX are nighttime regulars often with good signals.

Here's KNX.

 
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