Huh. Neat.

The Sangean is good, though I've found the Tecsun PL880 to be more sensitive (the Sangean does have far better build quality though).

Thanks. It's easy to be in the right place at the right time when I'm recording 3-5 channels non-stop, then using Audacity to very quickly scan for telltale sudden audio spikes. Listening live to an empty or semi-empty channel for meteor bursts is like listening to paint dry. Sometimes I'll have a weekend midday nap on the couch with an MP3 recorder going on with a radio within earshot. I heard a very sudden "92.1 Citi" out of Winnipeg like that a couple days ago. Other modes of DX - tropo ducting and e-skip IMO are more interesting to live listen. Separately, per above comments, I have a Tecsun PL380 ultralight radio that's maybe the size of three decks of cards, modified with a stick antenna on top by a west coast DXer, and it's pretty amazing for AM. I've had some e-skip on it but it's nothing special for FM. OTOH, e-skip doesn't take much if you're in a quiet rural space. I once had Kansas on a Tropicana Orange radio (the straw coming out of the orange is the lone rabbit ear antenna).