{"id":66059,"date":"2026-05-10T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66059"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:03:58","slug":"dxing-from-another-country-bermuda-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/dxing-from-another-country-bermuda-1975\/","title":{"rendered":"DXing from another country – Bermuda 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>by Dan Greenall<\/strong><\/p>\n

A half-century ago, long before the internet, e-mail, and SDRs, I was fortunate to visit the islands of Bermuda. In addition to meeting up with a fellow amateur radio operator, whom I had contacted from my home QTH in Ontario, Canada, I was able to do some listening on the AM broadcast band, as well as FM, on an inexpensive portable receiver from Radio Shack that I had brought along with me. To this day, I still have the recordings of a few medium wave “catches” that I made, a few from the Caribbean, and a few from the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n

You can hear them by following this link to the Internet Archive.
\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bcb-dx-from-bermuda-1975<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BCBDXfromBermuda1975-01.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

As well, I recorded station ID’s of all the AM (3) and FM (2) local radio stations in Bermuda.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>According to the 1975 World Radio TV Handbook, there were only 4 FM outlets, as the 94.9 FM outlet is not listed. Here is the link to these on the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bermuda-radio-airchecks-1975<\/a><\/p>\n

Today, I can DX from another country without leaving home (through the use of various worldwide SDR’s), though I have to admit that some of the magic is missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Dan Greenall A half-century ago, long before the internet, e-mail, and SDRs, I was fortunate to visit the islands of Bermuda. In addition to meeting up with a fellow amateur radio operator, whom I had contacted from my home QTH in Ontario, Canada, I was able to do some listening on the AM broadcast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,3,305,1154],"tags":[8234,10271,1302],"class_list":["post-66059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-travel","tag-bermuda","tag-dan-greenall","tag-radio-nostalgia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hbt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62700,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/pure-am-radio-nostalgia-vintage-aircheck-recordings-from-the-1970s-by-dan-greenall\/","url_meta":{"origin":66059,"position":0},"title":"Pure AM Radio Nostalgia: Vintage Aircheck Recordings from the 1970s by Dan Greenall","author":"Thomas","date":"April 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall for once again sharing a remarkable collection of vintage off-air AM radio recordings. 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