Radio DXing Update for New Years

Today is 2006, and its been a great celebration with my friend Kevin. He wanted me to update my blog here so here it is. This December 31, 2005 I was tuning around on the radio and I was using my DX-398 to tune the shortwave radio stations in. I was browsing around in my Passport To World Band Radio 2006, and around 10:00 AM I started to tune in the station called Radio Japan on a frequency of 11.705 MHz and heard a concert of some sort and it was mostly in Japanese. I was very excited about tuning in a live broadcast from Japan especially at their time, thanks to the Passport To World Band Radio 2006. Around 11:00 AM I tuned in to a frequency of 17.735 MHz on the shortwave bands and there was nothing there to be heard, until I heard the broadcast from Radio China International, but it was in a Chinese language, but it was not too exciting as the other broadcast I heard on 11.705 MHz in the 25 meter bands. This evening I got a chance to go to my friend Kevins House to have a little celebration, I also helped him with his computer and also helped him with installing a time zone program on his computer called Sun Clock and he was impressed with it. I did do some longwave radio DXing at his house and the reception, especially in a brick building pulled in the radio station from Columbia, NC clear as a bell on 216 kHz, but the problem was that there was alot of TV sync noise across the longwave bands, so TV was very popular over there at his house. I did suggest to him that if you get a longwave radio set that you should just consider just a loop antenna, not a longwire
antenna since you cannot put up longwire antennas outside like I can at my house.

I have plans in getting a nice scanner antenna up which is a discone antenna and also a bigger outdoor antenna setup that was outperform the other set up I have right now, but I may consider getting an attenuator for my antenna to keep the radio from overloading. I still need a preselector for the radio receiver anyways. Currently I use a DX-398, and YB-400 PE as my regular shortwave monitoring installation. I have plans in getting a Eton E1, but don't have the money yet. I'd rather just get a Grundig Satellit 800 instead of the E1 since it has the aircraft
bands and probably much better LW radio reception, and also I like older radios than newer ones, cause of the digital hash and birdies that come from the circuitry.