Re: [IRCA] Howdy

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
Here's another intoduction, I have just joined the IRCA although I've been a 
member of the list for a little while now. I'm 52 have been a DXer off and 
on now since I was a teenager. Started on my 1939 RCA 811K console, which I 
still have and which still works incidentally. I had a lot of thrills 
sitting in front of that thing, not a bad DX machine either, one of the 
biggest was logging KSL in 1976-77 (forget) on my first night of medium wave 
DXing, first and last time I got it here. I'm still a radio collector, both 
consoles and boatanchors, as long as it has tubes in it I like it. First TA 
was Germany 1593 in 1981 on a National HRO-60 with a loop. I'm also a 
musician, have been playing bass for 38 years both upright and electric, do 
a lot of blues, rock a billy and old rock. And just graduated from nursing 
school and am looking for a job in the psychiatric field. I'm currently 
using a Hammarlund HQ-180C which is a triple conversion boatanchor made 
around 1960 with 18 tubes, and weighs about 40 lbs, has an analog clock that 
works and has 18 knobs (and they all do something). I use both an 
unamplified balanced 4' loop and a 400' LW. Nothing like sitting in front of 
that radio on a cold winter night listening to RJR Jamaica, you can not only 
feel the heat from the radio you can feel it from the DJ and the music.

Bob Young
Millbury, Ma
Hammarlund HQ-180C 4' loop/400' LW


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Kridel" <tkridel@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America'" 
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Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Howdy


>
> Scott:
>
> Nice to meet you. I just ordered the 2006 calendar.
>
> 73,
>
> Tim Kridel
> KC0KEK
> Kansas City
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Scott Fybush
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:53 PM
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Howdy
>
> And as another new list member (and soon to be IRCA member, too, as soon 
> as
> I hit "send" on PayPal), here's my "howdy":
>
> DXing for the last 20 years or so from Rochester NY, Deep Springs CA,
> Waltham MA and (since 1997) back in Rochester. My interests include MW, FM
> and TV, though my proximity to several high-power FMs means I don't do 
> much
> DXing on that band from this QTH. (I was about to say "from this QRM,"
> which would be just as accurate.) I hosted the WTFDA convention in western
> New York in 2003, followed by the NRC convention here in 2004. I hope to
> attend an IRCA convention in the near future!
>
> "Toys" at this end include a Drake R8A, a McKay Dymek DA5 amplified 
> ferrite
> rod antenna, long-delayed plans to put up a KAZ pennant or something 
> similar
> (though it's a fairly small lot I'm dealing with), plus FM and TV gear and 
> a
> DTV tuner that I just started playing with last week.
>
> In "real life," I'm a professional broadcaster, having done radio news at
> WKOX, WCAP and WBZ in Massachusetts, TV for a few years in Rochester and 
> now
> part-time news work at WXXI 1370 here in Rochester. I'm also a freelance
> writer, writing about the radio industry for Radio World and other trade
> publications. For the last 11 years, I've been the editor of "NorthEast
> Radio Watch," a weekly update on the broadcast scene in the northeastern
> U.S. and eastern Canada, available at www.fybush.com, where you'll also 
> find
> the weekly "Tower Site of the Week" feature and information about the 
> "Tower
> Site Calendar," the 2006 edition of which just came out. And for the last
> three years, I've been the editor of www.100000watts.com, the national 
> radio
> directory site. Since some of the information that goes into the site is
> gathered from lists like this and from individual e-mail from fellow 
> DXers,
> I've established a (free) courtesy login for the site that's available to
> any DXer who contacts me off-list and asks.
>
> When I'm not doing radio, other interests include numismatics and travel.
> Those of you (I know there are several on the list) who made the 
> convention
> here last summer got to meet Ariel the DX Baby, who's now Ariel the DX
> Toddler, having just turned two today. <g> A few of you also met Freckles
> the DX Dog. And I've been married for 9 years to Lisa, who tolerates DXing
> and DXers quite well and who actually worked in radio way back when, 
> though
> she's happy to be out of it.
>
> I'm excited about what IRCA has to offer, and I hope I can be of service 
> to
> the club in the future.
>
> Scott Fybush
> Rochester NY
>
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