Show notes for Season 6, Episode 9 of DX Central Live!, a livestream devoted to AM/MW and FM DXing with live DX sessions, tips, tricks, shoutouts from DXers for their DX catches from the previous week, DX challenges and more! HOUR 1 The active regions of the Sun are now once again Earth-facing. Already, conditions on MW have been improving towards the South. We had a big opening to Peru here on Wednesday night. Will this continue? Not only was AM DX bumping on Wednesday night, but we had a rare December FM DX Tropo opening to the Southeast as well! Stations along the Florida Gulf Coast were coming in strong, all the way to Orlando and Mount Dora! We review the logs and look ahead to see if tropo conditions will return! DX TESTS RETURN! We have to wait until February, but the West Coast will soon be the home to sweeps, tones and morse code thanks to a series of DX Tests. We cover the details and the 'Save the Dates" (yes, we will be doing live streams for each!) I cannot say enough good things about the low-noise 35' vertical antenna! It has been a remarkable surprise just how good it actually is! How good? We are going to put up another one! (More on that next hour). HOUR 2 Another antenna change here at Northshore Studios and around the corner at Mamacita's shack? Well, thanks to Barry, yes....we will be making some changes. We talk through our thought process. With those changes in store, we take a look at phasing for MW DX. If you have a phaser such as the MFJ-1026, we talk through what you can do by just turning a few knobs! The ATS-25 "Max Decoder" portable radio has arrived. What do we think so far? We explore some "beacon" frequencies for our new MWFC Challenge. NEW CHALLENGE With the Solar conditions what they are, this is the perfect time to bring back one of our more popular "theme" challenges from Season 4, "The Country Challenge". Try to log as many countries as you can. 5 points if you log one station from the country. 10 points if you log two. Max of 10 points per country (countries like BVI and Antigua with 1 station, we are awarding the full 10 points for hearing them). The US counts as a country, so be sure to throw two logs in there for an easy 10 points! Top-of-Hour AM DX SESSIONS: Hour 1 - Finish up on 1470-1480 Hours 2 & 3 - Start Country hunting!