How To Use An AM Radio Tuned Loop Antenna For DX Listening

In this video I explain How To Use An AM Tuned Loop Antenna For DX radio Listening on a home stereo.

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Howto & Style

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• homemade
• AM
• radio
• Tuned
• Loop
• Antenna
• dx
• listening
• dxing
• short
• wave
• medium

[aurora990]

I had been AM DX listening for 16 years and night time is the best time for AM DX listening than in the day time. I live in southern California and I can receive in the night AM radio stations from far north in Seattle, Washington, far east in Salt Lake City, Utah and far south in Mexico. KOMO 1000 AM was the AM radio station I received from far north, KSL 1160 AM from far east and several Mexican radio stations from Baja California.

[69furball69]

@aurora990 Definitely, the low shortwave bands and AM broadcast band do share some interesting propagation characteristics. best is when the daytime (interference) stations go down for the night.

[aurora990]

@69furball69 I do notice some local AM radio stations with a strong signal in the day start to become weak. this is good enough for listening to AM radio stations that can be heard in the night but not in the day. for example, there is an AM radio station on the 890 KHz about 5 miles away from my current location that has a strong signal in the day but a weak signal in the night and there are multiple AM radio stations heard in the background mostly from Mexico using the same frequency.

[69furball69]

@aurora990 I sometimes listen to 1530, I believe it's out of LA (kfbk??), the Coast to Coast show starts 2 hours earlier on that station than on the local station. That show is often good for a laugh.

[senderjaeger]

Good video. But the text descriptions vanish too fast to read them completely.

[69furball69]

@senderjaeger Thanks.

You just have to click on the video to pause it. I know it's annoying but pausing allows you to take as long as you need to read the text.

[aurora990]

@69furball69 there is an AM radio station broadcasting on 1,240 KHz that broadcasts Coast-to-Coast AM and I always listen to the radio show live. I do receive an AM radio station on the 1,500 KHz but it has some interference from a Mexican radio station from Mexico when I point the antenna to the south but receive a different AM radio station on the same frequency from Sacramento when I point the antenna north. it is possibly KBKK.