Are there any other BCB DXer's out there?

My interest in radio began as a boy in the 1960's when I found that I could receive far away radio stations at night. I went to the local library (remember the Dewey Decimal System?) and got some books on antennas. I built two directional loop antennas and connected them to an RCA tube radio that my grandfather gave me. I used that radio for years to DX the AM band. There were many challenges with noise in an apartment in NYC.
Years later I moved to New Jersey and lived within 5 miles of about 8, 50,000 watt stations and about the same distance from several lower power ones. I'm not sure which was worse.
I now have a weekend home in rural PA that is relatively quite and 75 miles away from the nearest AM station. I'd like to get back into BCB DXing. I'll be moving my 756 pro lll here in the next few weeks. My first priority will be trying to get a 160 Meter dipole up (or a full-wave loop).
My next antenna or antennas will be for the BCB. Does any one know of, or used a good directional OUTDOOR antenna for the AM BCB? or better yet, plans to build one? I'd like to find something I could mount on top of my VHF/UHF beam, be moved by the rotator, be durable, and work well. I haven't been able to find any plans on-line for such an antenna.
Are there any other BCB DXer's out there? Just wondering what you use or have tried and how they compare.
If all else fails, I guess I could use a few short beverage type antenna, but my property is only 300 X 450.

I made a huge longwire antenna that seems to work best ( the ice storm took it out tho) I was thinking of making two this time one N-S on E-W and see what that does

I used to do it quite a bit a few years ago...I would do it on the way in to work. No fancy anything, just the factory installed Honda radio. I had more fun as a teenager, when we would "ride the circuit" in Grand Rapids, MI...almost everyone listened to either WGRD (1410) or WLAV (1340). 'GRD was dawn to dusk, so they went away at night. 'LAV was 24/7, but reduced power. I always surprised the others when my radio had WABC and Cousin Brucie on, or WCFL, or WLS, or WOKY. Of course, they were all top 40 stations then (late 60s). But the best was getting either Canadian or sometimes at the right time, Mexican stations. Don't remember just which one, maybe XERF or XELO. I may start that again when I don't need to worry about snow on the roads. Have listened to 3WE, WBBM, WOR, WSB, WOWO, and so on...FM stinks...you have (in general) rock in all its variations, country or religious stations. Hardly ever have it on anymore.
RadioWizard
"A Conservative In Exile"

Hi im still in to BCB Dxing .Been doing it for 37 years.Want to put up big ant to see what i can hear,here.Sprman

Chance for a rare catch: The Fargo, ND station at 1100 has been granted permission to run full power all night because of the flood.
WTAM, Cleveland, possibly could be nulled enough to catch it.

Thanks for the tip! I have two dipoles up here. One is run north and south the other is run east and west. It's amazing how much difference it makes on some stations (dropping many Db's)- There are times where I hear two completely stations on the same freq. just by switching antennas, while others don't seem to affected much at all.
I'd love to put up some sort of directional antenna (I can't do Beverage antennas) without going into phased arrays. I understand that the Quantum Phaser works well to produce deep nulls, but I've been told that large dipoles won't work well with it because of overloading.
If your into BCB DXing, if you've never checked out this site, it's worth checking from time to time.
http://www.dxtests.info/

Hi WSGI 1100 is not far from me .Grr would like to hear Fargo on 1100.Got to build me a loop..Yeah have been to they DXtest site .Tanks for reminding me of it.Sprman : )

I did BCB DXing more as a kid, first with an old Echophone and later with a Knight-Kit R-100A, both with a 100-foot east-to-west (or was that west-to-east) antenna between the barn and my second-floor bedroom window. I was logging all the night traffic then and during the daytime, I'd use a simple table radio to check out the locals. Because of my antenna, I got mostly Canadian and Mexican stations, and with a later antenna, pulled in stuff from New York along with KOA and KSL.

It is a lot of fun. I have a "new" synthesized receiver and need to put up an antenna better than the ten feet of wire tossed under the bed! Makes me blame the receiver or the lack of stations these days rather than the obvious culprit!

Dean

I used to get a thrill listenning to ham, etc., on sw on my RCA Victor model 110-K radio as a kid.
Bill Cahill