I always wanted a Hallicrafters S 120! I built a Heathkit GR 91 I think. I
still have it somewhere. G
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:52:09 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] 30 years of skywave DXing
Got the radio bug from a cousin of mine who was into shortwave. Our
grandparents lived out in the country and he would put up a wire and we would
listen to the propaganda broadcasts (this was the mid-60s).
Started in 1968 with a small Panasonic portable radio (transistor) which my
family got from the local Triple-S stamp redemption center in nearby Fair Lawn.
Picked up a couple hundred stations that summer and got a Hallicrafters S-120
for Christmas. Never knew about radio clubs, but it was a lot of fun just doing
it myself. I knew shortwave stations QSL'd, but never realized AM stations did
too! To this day, I have just one BCB QSL: KOA in Denver on that same Panasonic
portable (which no longer works) from 1977.
Three years later I got into amateur radio as WN2BSU and am now celebrating 40
years in the hobby. Started in broadcasting in 1980 at WRKL in New City NY,
worked full-time in radio in the mid-80s in WV, VA and IN before returning to
NJ in 1986. Have been doing sports reporting at WGHT since 1999 on a part-time
basis, in addition to working a day job.
>
>Found out about NRC from my friend Dave Marthouse and joined in 2001. Also
>joined IRCA. It's still fun to "just listen" and I do it once in a while.
>Guess it's a return to my roots as a radio hobbyist.
>
>Bob Antoniuk N2SU
>Clifton NJ
>
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