The DX 160 is still with me and sits on a shelf above my operating desk. I have sadly lost the matching speaker.
Yes, it was a bit drifty.
You had to get the main tuning just right or you were way off in frequency.
I heard all about how I was a decadent American from Radio Moscow. HCJB, The Voice of the Andes, was always there.
VOA and BBC were loud. And sometimes, in-between those stations and the noise you would hear a station from some country I had to go look to see where it was located.
Yeah.... pretty neat stuff for a teenager in those less digital days.