DX Central’s From the Static Podcast

Show notes from Season 6, Episode 4 | October 31, 2025HOUR 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 many options on the market, how do you know which one is the right choice for you? We break down some of

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 — a call sign that would ignite the age of commercial radio. As we weave through the history and legacy of

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 out at:

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 in reviewing their AM and FM DX recordings? (https://rweiss.de/dxer/tools.html) Bill Hepburn's Tropo

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 community among the radio industry. Bryce is also a very well known and established DXer based in

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 shoutouts, talk about the 2025 FM Sporadic Es season, wrapping up the 2025 Summer of DX Challenge and more! You

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 station that identified itself and it was from a city far from your home?  Guess what, you just