What is Medium Wave DXing?
This is a guide to long distance listening (DXing) on the Medium Wave (MW) band. If you’ve never tried listening to anything other than your local radio station on Medium Wave then these pages are intended to give you an insight into the stations you could hear, and how to identify them. Also covered are the types of receivers and aerials you should use and an introduction to signal propagation. With the imminent arrival of digital broadcasting on Medium Wave, we look at how this will affect the hobby. We also take a detailed look at DXpeditions, where keen listeners go to remote and electrically quiet locations to hear the most difficult catches. Of course once you’ve caught an interesting station you will probably want a QSL card, so we also include information that should make this task easier. Naturally a guide like this can only scratch the surface of MW DXing so it needs to act as a pointer towards more information and indeed you’ll find up to date listings of suitable books, clu
