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DX Central: From the Static is a podcast dedicated to the hobby of DXing, the practice of tuning in distant radio stations. Hosted by DX Central, it features highlights from weekly livestreams, interviews with radio enthusiasts, and stories about long-distance radio listening. The show explores the voices, music, and tales that travel hundreds or thousands of miles across the airwaves. It aims to inspire listeners to discover what lies beyond their familiar local stations.

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DX Central's From The Static Podcast | Episode 33 | July 2026 Sporadic Es Recap Aug 6, 2026 7580 NOTE: This podcast was recorded on August 1, 2026. Any activity after that date will not be reflected in our data/recap. We continue our series of Data Analysis episodes with a look back at the month of July 2026 for the North American Sporadic Es FM DX season as part of our Sporadic Es Data Analysis Project (SEDAP) at fmdxdata.com. Somehow, even the word "historic" seems insignificant in the

DX Central's From The Static Podcast | Episode 32 | June 2026 Sporadic Es Recap Jul 18, 2026 7041 NOTE: This podcast was recorded on July 8, 2026. Any activity after that date will not be reflected in our data/recap. The 2026 Sporadic Es season is off to a roaring start, and June was the day that lit an absolute fire on the band(s). High MUFs, massive openings, thousands of logs. But what is in the data that can help us make sense of it all? For Episode 32 of the From the Static podcast, w

DX Central's From The Static Podcast | Episode 31 | May 2026 Sporadic Es Recap Jun 12, 2026 5065 NOTE: This podcast was recorded on June 5, 2026, before the ionosphere absolutely exploded with activity between June 8 and June 10. For more information on that recent activity, be sure to pick up the July 2026 edition of The Spectrum Monitor magazine at The Spectrum Monitor. The 2026 Sporadic Es season is off to a roaring start, but things took a while to get going in May, despite some conside

Episode 30 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 30 - Season Finale! - May 1, 2026 May 24, 2026 10604 - Introduction to SEDAP (Sporadic Es Data Analysis Project) and walking through the new dashboard and data visualizations including our groundbreaking Sporadic Es Cloud Tracker - Introduction of the 2026 Summer of DX challenge with an all new visual and interface, new bands, new challenges, bounties and more! - Season ending shoutouts

Episode 29 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 29 - April 24, 2026 May 24, 2026 8776 Using other bands to spot openings on FM from Tropo and Sporadic Es. Some folks use 6 Meters for Es and 2 Meters for Tropo as early warning signs of FM openings. How reliable are they? We talk through it. Sporadic Es season is so close, here are your last minute preparations you need to wrap up to be ready, come what May (get it?) The tropo forecast for next week looks promising. A bit too e

Episode 28 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 28 - April 17, 2026 May 24, 2026 10515 Hour 1 - Logging stations using FMlist.org and why this is important - FM Antenna shootout - last week we looked at SDRs for FM season, this week we tackle Antennas Hour 2 - Logging stations using WTFDA's WLogger and why this is important - Early warning of openings - how to be ready just in case TOH DX: FM DX with hopes of some at least mild tropo

Episode 27 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 27 - April 10, 2026 May 24, 2026 10168 HOUR 1 FM DX Webservers: Using them as a DXer, hosting one for yourself and other DXers Updating SDR Console with the latest RDS information HOUR 2 RDS Autologging through Rabbitears: How to use this information as a DXer, how to host your own autologger SDR Options for high bandwidth (~10 MHz) IQ recordings for FM TOH DX We navigate the local FM band, keeping an eye on MW If time

Episode 26 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 26 - April 3, 2026 May 24, 2026 10451 HOUR 1 Welcome to April! Time to change our focus to all things FM. Before we do, though, a quick hit on MW: We wrap up The Frequency Challenge this week and what a challenge it has been! Just under 3,000 logs in one challenge? Unbelieveable! Also, Loyd heard Uruguay this week! To get us started on FM DX Preparedness Month, we do a quick recap on Tropo: how it works, how to know when it is

Episode 25 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 25 - March 27, 2026 Mar 29, 2026 8660 - Tropo getting going on the Gulf Coast - We look at the Tropo forecast to see how long the fun will last - AM DX heating up to the South - not just Latin America - but even further South along the grayline! - Portable FM DX with a custom built Arrow Antennas Yagi antenna - Sporadic Es already underway - at least in Europe - We check in on the progress with The Frequency Challenge - only one week

Episode 24 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 24 - March 20, 2026 Mar 29, 2026 8720 HOUR 1 Bruce Conti's Right Triangle Terminated Loop TEF AM Webserver? Yup, we did that Nearly 2000 logs in one week? Ya'll are incredible HOUR 2 FM Tropo engine is ramping up on the coasts Notorious BoG to the rescue! Our new RDS Autologger is up and running and......wow TOH DX All Hours - Working down our 3 logs per frequency quota backlog

Episode 23 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 23 - March 13, 2026 Mar 29, 2026 9510 Hour 1 With me on the road this week for the dayjob, there was no time for DX. Except for a little FM DX I was able to enjoy on the airplane. Flying 35,000 feet above central Louisiana, my little NXP Nano TEF radio pulled in some interesting stuff! I did notice a lot of chatter in the Slack Channel while I was out about antennas, specifically terminated loops such as KAZ, Flags and SuperLoops.

Episode 22 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 22 - March 6, 2026 Mar 29, 2026 8672 HOUR 1 We sadly say good bye to the US State Challenge. That has been a fun one, hasn't it? I didn't get OR or ID here, wasn't for a lack of trying, but still managed to get some new ones and revisit some old friends i hadn't heard in a while. A new TEF has arrived here at the house - the NXP Nano. It may be a tiny little thing, but it performs just as well as it's larger brothers. New chall

Episode 21 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 21 - February 27, 2026 Mar 29, 2026 9114 Hour 1 - Wait, what? Late February Es? Yup, more than once this week, the FM band once again surprises us! We take a look at who got in on the action and discuss what - if anything - it means for our upcoming season. - The US State Challenge, first week, has been a rousing success. Our DXers have already logged the entire "lower 48", submitted nearly 600 logs and we still have a whole other week t

Episode 20 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 20 - February 20, 2026 Feb 23, 2026 9426 We are back, baby! Hour 1 - We have a new, THIRD, FM DX Webserver. And tonight, we walk through what you need to do to have your own TEF-powered Webserver! - New Challenge Launches! - The challenge site is active again with a new challenge - the US State Challenge. Try to log as many states as you can, with up to 2 logs in each getting you points....just like the Country Challenge we did earlier

Episode 19 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 16 - January 23, 2026 Feb 22, 2026 9510 HOUR 1 Solar Storm (Take 1 - The Demo Version) - Well, that wasn't much to sneeze at, was it? The Bz stayed more positive than a motivational speaker on their 2nd pot of coffee. As such, we didn't get a visual or radio event from this one. There was a definite radio blackout - even down here we noticed. Some folks saw little pockets of enhancement this week, but not what we were hoping for. Some

Episode 18 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 15 - January 16, 2026 Jan 20, 2026 8722 NEW CHALLENGE We continue with a new frequency range, another littered with large stations with smaller gems hiding in their shadows: 1500-1540 kHz. This will be a 1 week challenge. HOUR 1 See ya next season, FM: We seem to have officially entered that 'dead band' period for FM where it is too cold and stable for most tropo, meteor scatter slows to a crawl and Es - while they can happen at any

Episode 17 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 14 - January 9, 2026 Jan 11, 2026 9752 New Challenge! Week 14 of the MW Frequency Challenge is here where we focus on 1180-1220. Lots of big guns in this range but can you pick out the ones in their shadows? Some good international DX in here too! Hour 1 Sporadic Es Bonanza - almost every day this week saw someone somewhere in the US getting that elusive Winter Es opening. We look at the maps and check the current conditions. And

Episode 16 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 12 - December 26, 2025 Dec 29, 2025 9170 HOUR 1 it's the end of the year, and that means it is time to look back at 2025 and reflect on a year of DX. AM, FM, NDB, NOAA WX DX.....it's been quite a year! We finally got our Airspy HF+D paired with a splitter from our big Southern-facing KAZ. Let's just say, the CCC and that antenna are a match made in DX heaven. And it is already producing for us! I spent the week working on my brand

Episode 15 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 11 - December 19, 2025 Dec 25, 2025 8972 HOUR 1 We test out and demonstrate our new phasing set up using our 35' low noise vertical and a W6LVP loop through an RSPduo. Demoing diversity mode, showing how it works and how well it can help get rid of the unwanted (noise, pest stations, etc.) and pull up DX! We launch a new challenge for the week: The 3rd Annual Daytime Challenge! A slight tweak this year: the period runs 2 hours after

Episode 14 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 10 - December 12, 2025 Dec 15, 2025 10114 HOUR 1 We have launched a new station target list - "Loyd's Go-To Pan-American 'Beacon' Frequencies" and will review that and some use-cases for it in the show. More solar fun - The sun was playing with our ionosphere again this week like a kitten with a ball of string. And it wasn't just signals to the South that were the result! New video has dropped on YouTube - the 35' Vertical Antenna!

Episode 13 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 9 - December 5, 2025 Dec 8, 2025 10242 Show notes for Season 6, Episode 9 of DX Central Live!, a livestream devoted to AM/MW and FM DXing with live DX sessions, tips, tricks, shoutouts from DXers for their DX catches from the previous week, DX challenges and more! HOUR 1 The active regions of the Sun are now once again Earth-facing. Already, conditions on MW have been improving towards the South. We had a big opening to Peru here on

Episode 12 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 8 - November 28, 2025 Dec 1, 2025 9144 HOUR 1 The new low-noise vertical. Talking through the install, the setup, the unique "Jeff Imel-inspired" chemical ground and checking out the performance LIVE! Unveiling the new MW Frequency Challenge - All Season Data Analysis! You all have been checking out and the feedback has been fantastic. Now, we unleash it to the world. A few sections are still under construction (the audio locker an

Episode 11 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 7 - November 21, 2025 Nov 24, 2025 8662 HOUR 1 FM DX - recent tropo and Auroral Es. We take a look at Bill Hepburn's Tropo Forecast New gear is here! - VE3PSZ model V3A High-Z Amplifier - this is going to be the matching unit and amplifier for my new ~35 foot low-noise vertical antenna that (hopefully) will be going up this weekend. New gear on the way! - We take a look at two new pieces of gear on the way for testing: Also in Hou

Episode 10 | DXC 1-on-1 | Our interview with IRCA President, Bruce Portzer Nov 20, 2025 3137 Back in 2022, we recorded an interview with IRCA President, Bruce Portzer. It was originally intended to be broadcast in our season 3 premiere of DX Central Live, as we had done the previous season with our interview with Publisher Wayne Heinen of the National Radio Club. However, the fates conspired against us with corrupted video files and then, we lost access to the files altogether. Fast forwa

Episode 9 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 6 - November 14, 2025 Nov 15, 2025 9881 This episode is brought to you by the letter "S" as in "Solar Storm"! Tons of shoutouts with a definite "Latin theme" to them this week as auroral enhancement brought signals from the South to DXers all over the United States. EPISODE 6 AGENDA: HOUR 1 - Attack of the Sun - or - Getting DX from down South (and I don't mean Waffle House territory) - We dive into the week of amazing DX, Latin Ameri

Episode 8 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 5 - November 7, 2025 Nov 10, 2025 9074 Show Notes: Season 6, Episode 5 MW Frequency Challenge: The Grayline Challenge - October 31 through November 14 - The challenge continues! Only stations received 45 minutes prior to through 45 minutes after local sunrise/sunset. In years past when we did similar challenges around grayline periods, we had a much larger window. I am tightening that up this year to try to reduce skywave influence a

Episode 7 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 4 - October 31, 2025 Nov 1, 2025 8383 Show notes from Season 6, Episode 4 | October 31, 2025 HOUR 1: Logging and logbooks - with a special focus on the Google Suite and using Google Forms, Google Sheets and Google Sites for logbook entry and analysis. We also take a quick look at the new DX Central Live! Web site and show archive and discuss "Studio C," the new DX Central Patreon! HOUR 2: Choosing the right SDR for AM DX - With so ma

Episode 6 | The History of Radio - The Story of KDKA Oct 29, 2025 2805 In this debut episode of DX Central’s From the Static: The History of Radio series, we journey back to the dawn of broadcasting — to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the transmitter that changed everything. It began with hobbyists, tinkerers, and a garage in Wilkinsburg where engineer Frank Conrad strung up an antenna and started sending music into the ether. From those humble beginnings came KDKA —

Episode 5 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 3 - October 24, 2025 Oct 27, 2025 8491 It is episode three of season 6, where we discuss some of the "other" kinds of DX that you can do besides AM and FM. Not the easy ones like shortwave or ham radio....some of the more off-the-path types such as NOAA Weather Radio, NDBs on longwave, ADS-B, AIS ship tracking and TV DX! We take a look at Nick Langan's fantastic article in Radio World magazine about AM DX in the Graveyard. Check it

Episode 4 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6, Episode 2 - October 17, 2025 Oct 18, 2025 8988 For our second episode of Season 6 of DX Central Live!, we dive into using AI in your DX. Can AI actually help you identify stations and get more logs in your logbook? We test it out! Also, a quick run through of using WavViewDX software for review of IQ recordings made in a wide assortment of SDR software. Between the analysis and carrier slueth views, is there value here for DXers to use it

Episode 3 | DXC 1 on 1: Interview with Nick Langan and Bryce Foster Oct 17, 2025 6270 For episode 3, we bring to you our interview conducted for the May 2025 season finale of Season 5 of DX Central Live! with famous FM DXers - and hosts of the fantastic VHF DX Podcast - Nick Langan and Bryce Foster. Nick is well known and established DXer based in New Jersey who writes for Radio World magazine on radio and DX related topics. Think of him as an ambassador of sorts for the DX comm

Episode 2 | DX Central (Re)Live! - Season 6 Premiere Oct 11, 2025 9240 In this episode we tune in for the premiere of Season 6 of DX Central Live! We do some live DX including searching for Latin American signals and stations within "The Graveyard". The new season of the MW Frequency Challenge gets underway as we launched the "Graveyard Challenge" and talked about some tips and tricks for DXers to use as they tuned in on the graveyard frequencies. Plenty of shoutou

Episode 1 | DX101 | Intros and What is DX? Oct 7, 2025 6412 Welcome to the first episode of the DX Central "From the Static" Podcast. In this episode, after we do some basic introductions, we dive into our first DX101 segment. This episode, we cover the basics of "What is DX?" For those who are newer to the topic of DX, have you ever found yourself tuning around on an AM or FM radio and come across a signal you were not expecting? Maybe it was from a st

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