Mount Evelyn DX Report

  OPENING THE LOGBOOK SEPTEMBER 1972 Each month, I open the old records to see what I (and others) heard decades ago. It has been fun looking back at old issues of the Australian DX News (ADXN - the newsletter of the Australian Radio DX Club), bringing back lots of memories. Here are some memories from September 1972—54 years ago!  All frequencies in kHz; all times are UTC (or GMT, as we used to say in those days!). My First Mediumwave DXpedition We begin this month's Opening the Logbook by focusing on mediumwave DX. 54 years ago this month, I went on my first mediumwave DXpedition. Boy, what an education it was! Australia's foremost DXer, Bob Padula, and I made the trip to Phillip Island, a popular holiday destination about two hours from Melbourne. We rented a little old shack near the town of Cowes and spent several days exploring the region. But at night, the radios were in full swing. This weekend proved to be a real education in the art of mediumwave DXing. As I mentione...

  THE STATIONS THAT GOT AWAY This article first appeared in the August 2026 issue of my World of Shortwave Listening column for The Spectrum Monitor magazine. Further details on this excellent publication are available at www.thespectrummonitor.com One of the great conveniences of modern portable shortwave receivers is the ability to automatically scan the bands and store active frequencies in memory. Manufacturers call these features by various names: ATS (Auto Tuning Storage), ETM (Easy Tuning Mode), Auto Scan, and similar terms. The appeal is obvious: press a button, let the radio do the work, and return later to a list of stations currently on the air. Yet many shortwave listeners have noticed that stations clearly audible during manual tuning sometimes fail to appear in the radio’s automatically generated memory list. This raises an interesting question: can shortwave fading cause ATS or ETM to miss stations? The evidence suggests that the answer is yes. How ATS Works Manufact...