: Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:59 AM
Subject: [DX-CHAT] Great Story
GM,
In the late 1960s I was one country off the top of the honor roll,
Heard Island. I lost interest in DX and faded away. One Heard Island
DXpedition came and gone. Then in 1983 VK0CW was activated. I
put up a 20 meter
Well, a little off-topic but never the less a "Twilight Zone" moment in my DX
career - in January 1983 I watched a movie on my VCR called "Bear Island" (VHS
for all us old guys) and when the movie ended I walked up into the shack,
turned on the radio which just happened to be tuned to 14.220 M
Great story Urb!
I recall shortly after I got seriously interested in DXing in 1993 I
went through my old logs and found QSO's with JX5CI and a station who
had operated portable from 3A. Both QSO's were in the early 80's, I
believe. I tracked down QSL routes and sent them, hoping I could still
ge
GM,
In the late 1960s I was one country off the top of the honor roll,
Heard Island. I lost interest in DX and faded away. One Heard Island
DXpedition came and gone. Then in 1983 VK0CW was activated. I
put up a 20 meter dipole and worked them. I could now say I worked
them all. However,
