{"id":23384,"date":"2017-01-27T08:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T12:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23384"},"modified":"2017-10-28T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:18:20","slug":"dean-an-intrepid-young-dxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/dean-an-intrepid-young-dxer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean: An intrepid young DXer!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dean’s trusty Tecsun PL-660<\/p><\/div>\n

UPDATE (28 October 2017): <\/strong>We’ve updated links to Dean’s website to reflect his new URL.<\/em><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, I received a message from SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Dean Denton<\/strong>, who lives in\u00a0Hull, UK. Dean is not your typical contemporary\u00a0shortwave listener–he’s twelve years old and has been DXing since the age of eight! <\/em>While, decades ago, that used to be the norm–indeed, I started SWLing at eight–Dean is bucking the trend in 2017.<\/p>\n

Dean’s listening post consists of a few receivers: \u00a0the\u00a0Tecsun PL-660, a Tesco RAD 108, a Uniden UBC360CLT and a Hitachi TRK P65E. Dean also spends a great deal of time on the excellent University of Twente WebSDR.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dean noted in a recent message:<\/p>\n

“I typically love a lot of broadcasters, but generally China Radio International, Radio Romania International, BBC, Voice of America plus many more. I like talk and news on shortwave radio as it gives an insight of a typical country’s actions.<\/p>\n

I also love music on shortwave due to Amplitude Modulation and its characteristics. Not to mention Pirate Radio, HAM Radio, Numbers Stations and anything else.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dean, you’re a kindred spirit indeed–to me, there’s nothing like the sound of music via the “sonic texture” of shortwave radio.<\/p>\n

Not only is Dean a radio enthusiast, but he also started a website<\/a> and is building a library of videos on his YouTube channel<\/a>. Indeed, most recently, he’s been experimented with Narrow Band TV on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

While looking through his\u00a0channel, I found this screencast and recording he made as France Inter shut down their 162 kHz longwave service<\/a>\u00a0as 2016 came to a close:<\/p>\n