{"id":51555,"date":"2022-01-17T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=51555"},"modified":"2022-01-17T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:39:49","slug":"dx-centrals-mw-frequency-challenge-week-8-results-and-week-9-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/dx-centrals-mw-frequency-challenge-week-8-results-and-week-9-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"DX Central&#8217;s MW Frequency Challenge: Week 8 Results and Week 9 Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-FrontPanel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36270 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-FrontPanel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1104\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-FrontPanel.jpg 1104w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-FrontPanel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-FrontPanel-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-FrontPanel-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-FrontPanel-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1104px) 100vw, 1104px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Many thanks to\u00a0<em>SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor Loyd Van Horn at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dxcentralonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DX Central<\/a> who shares the following announcement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Another great week of loggings in our MW Frequency Challenge is in the rear view mirror, with week 8\/1460 kHz closing out last night during our DX Central Live! livestream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We now turn our attention to a new frequency for week 9: 550 kHz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This will be a challenging frequency, as there are not as many stations here. There are opportunities though for both domestic and international DX, and US stations have a decent amount of space between them and a good smattering of 5kw stations to make this week one that should be a lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We are already getting in some good logs from those that were on the livestream last night, be sure to get your logs in as well using the Google Form linked in the blog post, below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dxcentralonline.com\/post\/mw-frequency-challenge-week-8-results-and-week-9-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.dxcentralonline.com\/post\/mw-frequency-challenge-week-8-results-and-week-9-announcement<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Good luck to all!<br \/>\nLoyd Van Horn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor Loyd Van Horn at\u00a0DX Central who shares the following announcement: Another great week of loggings in our MW Frequency Challenge is in the rear view mirror, with week 8\/1460 kHz closing out last night during our DX Central Live! livestream. We now turn our attention to a new frequency for week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,713,433,3],"tags":[8506,8507,4099],"class_list":["post-51555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-contests","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-dx-central","tag-loyd-van-horn","tag-mediumwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dpx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51019,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/dx-centrals-mw-frequency-challenge-week-1-results-week-2-announcement\/","url_meta":{"origin":51555,"position":0},"title":"DX Central&#8217;s MW Frequency Challenge: Week 1 results &#038; Week 2 announcement","author":"Thomas","date":"November 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor Loyd Van Horn at\u00a0DX Central who shares the following announcement: Week 1 of the DX Central MW Frequency Challenge is in the books and with nearly 75 entries on a short week, it was a great success! 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