John AE5B wrote:
Fifty years ago this week, a fourteen year old shortwave listener tuned his
ancient Hallicrafters S40B to 20.005 Megacycles and was able to hear a weak,
scratchy beeb-beeb-bee from Sputnik I.
What is DX? To a 14 year old kid that was REAL DX.
To those of you that have been around awhile...hasn't it been fun?
Indeed it has.
At the same time, a brand new immigrant, living in the United States
for three weeks, did the same thing with a Hallicrafters SX-100, on
which he had spent virtually all his first paycheck. About a week
earlier he had hand carried all 45 lbs of it from downtown Boston on
the MTA to Everett, and then to his attic apartment in Malden, MA.
But I'll never forget my XYL, and our landlord and landlady sitting
there with me listening to those beeps.
73, John, NT5C.
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