This was my second shortwave receiver, after moving up from a secondhand Heathkit GR-81 as a young teen in the mid-70s. I was heavily into SWLing for several years, and heard and verified more stations on my used DX-160 than any other receiver before or since.
One difficulty with non-digital receivers was always aligning the bandspread correctly to know *about* what frequency you were on, if you were hunting specific stations. Radio Shack sold an outboard 100kHz calibrator in one of their "red breadboard" kits at this time which made that simpler in frequency ranges where you couldn't necessarily tune to a known station to calibrate.
I was two blocks from a 5kw AM station's pattern array, so there was some bleed into the SW at certain frequency ranges, but not nearly as bad as with the earlier Heathkit.
I was interested in tropical stations at that time, so had a large dipole in the back yard tuned somewhere around 60-75 meters. Spent quite a few early morning hours trying to catch low-powered South Pacific stations. I managed PNG Port Moresby 4890 kHz, the station in New Caledonia (on 7170 or thereabouts?), and of course Radio New Zealand back when it was only 10-20 kw. I believe I heard the station in the New Hebrides Islands under heavy static around 3945 kHz, but could not successfully verify it due to vague details. The island music of Radio Tahiti was a favorite on 15.xxx MHz in summer evenings. Along with those I heard a whole raft full of the usual European and South American stations.
The Solomon Islands on 5020 kHz, and the fabled Cook Islands Broadcasting service were elusive targets, I never had any luck with getting any signal from those.
At that time, ASIA and East Asia were the toughest reception among higher powered stations. I never could manage India, Taiwan, or the Phillipines.
My best catch was probably Trans World Radio Bonaire on the AM band, on 800 kHz or whatever channel the CKLW station used to be on. I managed to catch it only when CKLW had gone off the air for some reason, and was verified for it.
A real pity I don't have all those old QSLs...
After losing interest in shortwave, I sold the DX-160 along with a Lafayette tube receiver to help finance my first car. Little did I know I'd be back into it within about 16 months, but in a different vein, and have to buy another receiver all over again...