AL's post motivated me to dig up my log from a different year of the NJ Antique Radio Clubs AM BCB DX contest.  I knew without looking it up that it was a different year because I used the same radio that AL showed in his post.  I mean, like, literally the same radio.  AL was kind enough to let me schlep his receiver to Prince Edward Island.

I wanted to take a real receiver, not a crystal set or portable, so that I could take advantage of the oceanfront location hundreds of miles closer to Europe, and Beverage antennas.  I was used to running this contest from home with things like RBB or AR-88 but those were out of the question, even if we weren't already heavily laden with other radio gear.

The R-24/ARC-5 fit the bill perfectly. 

Sunset is a target rich opportunity because the band isn't open to the West yet, but open across the pond.  The band was full of heterodynes from the EU stations on 9kc channel increments and the NA stations on the 10s.  The only station I was able to confidently identify was the mega-power station from Duba, Saudi Arabia. 

A morning session was all about chasing South America.  Those are often the big score stations(its by miles) from NJ, and they were worth more from PEI.

Good times.

This was a side quest to a serious multioperator entry in the CQWW 160m DX contest

RF