A continuing general lack of excitement, only audio beyond the
regulars was on 1098, maybe Chinese, still unidentified. Still,
perhaps a touch better than yesterday?
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker,
at least briefly):
972 HLCA emotional male vocal briefly
I was a casual BCB DXer from 1961 (age 8) to 1966 (age 13) with a pocket
transistor, but really became hooked from 1967-69 as a teenager living in
Iwakuni, Japan. There were lots of interesting stations that no longer exist
(AFVN-Armed Forces Vietnam Network, KSBK (?) in Okinawa, and my local 15
I started with MW DX and SWBC DX in about 1972. Then Utility DX in 1974 for a
couple years. Even a little FM DX in the mid-70's. Not much SWBC DX since
moving to CA in 1984. Now I split my time between MW DX and Utility DX and
occasionally listen for 10 meter ham beacons.
Martin Foltz
Mission V
1971: Sister brings home BF who is in Navy.
He goes on deployment leaving her his 5-Band portable radio while he’s away.
I switch it on hearing WWV for first time and a myriad of strange sounds,
randomly fading signals and noises.
Boom! I’m addicted.
Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -
I started in 1962 , as I knew nothing about it, picking up my first radio off a
garbage rack on my way home from school. I was 13. My mother would not let me
plug it in until my father got home. We plugged it in and i turned it on,
catching the Anchorage AK stations from Seward (KENI-550, KHAR-5
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MW since about 1959-1960 fairly consistently with some short periods of
inactivity. Joined NRC around 1972-1973 and IRCA about a year later.
SW main activity 1962-1967, some dabbling after that.
Most active ham operating period 1967-1975.
The "rest of the story" (as Paul
Things are a little quieter than they have been up Victoria way, Steve.
No audio here either. Not yet. (said he hopefully)
best wishes,
Nick
At 03:15 2018-02-09, Steve Ratzlaff wrote:
Haven't been doing much radio lately but seeing reports of evening
TA activity prompted to turn the radi
Haven't been doing much radio lately but seeing reports of evening TA
activity prompted to turn the radio on. Excellent LWBC a little earlier;
lots of weak to medium MW hets as well but couldn't get any audio from
those.
171 Morocco medium, 183 Germany poor/weak; 189 Iceland very poor; 198
En
I started dx'ing when I was 11yrs.old in 1963 using an old hallicrafters
s-38e. began with sw and recall getting my first qsl from HCJB "voice of the
andes". Did not find
Sw very interesting due to being overshadowed by my big bro. and his buddy
who still lives down the street and still dx's! the
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Russ-
My story is just about identical to yours. Started with MW at age 12, dabbled
in SW in teens, then back to MW.
Marc DeLorenzo
South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?228-DeLorenzo-s-Classic-DX
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Russ,
For me, I started out DXing SW when I was a teen living in Australia on June
29 1975, my first logging was Radio Nederland broadcasting to the Pacific
region with the "Happy Station", then followed by Radio Canada
International.
Later in 1975, I was sharing pretty much equal time between SW
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I entered a contest in Jr High to see how far I could hear on the AM band. The
fellow running the contest informed me that I could write stations and get
verification. So I did. I wrote to KOB and was recruited by IRCA. I wound up
receiving "DX Monitor" by 3rd class mail (I
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Hi All:
BCB, pretty much exclusively from about seventh grade on. I was interested in
Ham radio but never had the money to invest. When my friend Chris, who was a
ham operator, moved away one of the things that drew me and Bruce Heimburger
together was an interest in BCB DX
SW here when I was about 12 years old. Then a little MW but also a lot of
police radio listening. By my 20's I moved on to other things (women, beer,
music, etc). It wasn't until my early 40s that I really got back into the
hobbyand it was SW again that started it off.
Keith
Hingham MA
Shortwave first around age 12 or 13, but quickly followed by MW, much
later LW, FM and TV. My first MW DX was WHLO 640 on a very whistle-y
Heathkit kit my dad and I built, a GR-100 or something like that.
These days MW and FM are the priority, though I occasional dabble in the
others, particular
BCB first then SW much later.
Sent from my iPad
> On Feb 8, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote:
>
> Mostly this is aimed at folks here who've been DX'ing for many years.
>
>
> How many here either started out DX'ing SW or have done so along with BCB
> over the years ?
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> I started wi
Russ,
I started with BCB as a kid. Probably about 10 or 11. Our next door
neighbor was carrying a LARGE old wooden Philco radio from the 40's out
to the curb to throw away. It seems that where they had it stored in
the attic of a house they were renting, someone had stolen all the tubes
ou
Mostly this is aimed at folks here who've been DX'ing for many years.
How many here either started out DX'ing SW or have done so along with BCB over
the years ?
I started with BCB as a child, and dabbled in SW in my late teens and early
twenties, then went back to BCB because to me at the tim
I do know that they do beam to the NNW in the early evening but I do not
know the specific times. There is a dxer in Indiana that had them at a
local like signal for a brief moment a week or two ago.
Todd Skaine
ICOM 7300
Sony ICF 2010
Both hooked up to a Superloop
Toyota car radio
On Feb 8, 2018
I just returned from a Caribbean cruise, where I made a point of
checking 800 during local evenings.
PJB was local quality near the southeast corner of Cuba at 0210 1/29,
giving contact info and RTM/Transmundial IDs. The carrier dropped for
1-2 seconds a few times as though they were having t
Did anyone do a recording this morning (8 February) that would have
included WBZ-1030 at around 1010UT (5:10AM EST)?
If so, please contact me off list. No prizes or anything, just
trying to help out another DXer!
best wishes,
Nick
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada
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