Chris Kadlec wrote: > Everyone has to start somewhere. You just persist and find ways to gain > knowledge, improve your hobby for yourself and others, and one day it's all > effortless.
Before we visited China in 1979, I did quite a bit of research utilizing many available sources including FBIS, the WRH (no WRTVH back then) and DX reports. It was challenging because everything available was in anglicized Pinyin. Fortunately, I came across a province-by-province atlas with everything in anglicized Mandarin. The result was a freq-by-freq bandscan of what I “might” hear. I taped extensively and got to the point where I very often could identify where a “bo dian tai” was from. To fill in the gaps, I befriended a lovely SF Safeway checker who was from Taiwan but was fluent in Mandarin. She not only identified the ones I couldn’t, she translated my English language reports into Mandarin. I sent these with cassettes and got a lot of Chinese veries I otherwise would not have gotten. So Chris, you are absolutely right. Thanks for providing us with all the Asian DX information! Pete Taylor Tacoma, WA 12225w 4719n HQ180 & ICF2010 Kiwa aircore & Palomar loops DX398, SRF-59 & M37V Eton E100 + Tecsun PL-300/380 _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com