Re: [IRCA] Howdy

[LEE FRESHWATER <amlogbook@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi BOB !!

WELCOME  !!!  Glad you could join us .

It's nice to see some "Easterners" join our ranks....
Hope to see your loggings in EDXR...


And to all you other "new" people.... 

We offer a complete set of IRCA reprints on CD for
only $10.00.

Paper copies are also availabble. See the IRCA web
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Lee Freshwater
EDXR & REPRINT SERVICE
Ocala, FL

--- Bob Young <youngbob53@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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'" 
> <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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