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Today's Topics:
1. Re: E-Mail Lists & The Future of the Hobby (Patrick Martin)
2. Re: E-Mail Lists & The Future of the Hobby
(Kevin R. in Gilbert, AZ)
3. Re: Howdy (Bill Block)
4. WATR (David Hochfelder)
5. IRCA and NRC (David Hochfelder)
6. Re: Howdy (Bill B)
7. Re: E-Mail Lists & The Future of the Hobby (Patrick Martin)
8. Re: Howdy (Patrick Martin)
9. Re: IRCA and NRC (Patrick Martin)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:57:06 -0700
From: mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)
Subject: Re: [IRCA] E-Mail Lists & The Future of the Hobby
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mailing list for the International Radio
Club of America)
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No, the NRC is not folding. The list is just going and they have started
a forum to try and replace it at a cost of $5 for NRC members and $15 a
year for non members. The forum is totally controlled by the NRC and the
ownership of the material. No cross posting will be allowed either. I
did not join the forum. It just does not interest me. Any list should be
free too.
Patrick
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KAVT Reception Manager
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:00:04 -0700
From: "Kevin R. in Gilbert, AZ" <amfmdx@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] E-Mail Lists & The Future of the Hobby
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
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I move that we open discussions to combine the NRC and IRCA. Do I hear
> a second?
>
If it means anything, I would prefer IRCA to remain separate from all clubs.
Not a good idea.
Kevin
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:10:46 +0000
From: "Bill Block" <billwblock@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Howdy
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Hi John
Welcome to the IRCA list. It was nice to meet you in Columus, Ohio in 1975!
I just moved to Arizona last year after living in Portland for some 57
years. DX sure is a lot better here in Arizona than in Portland!
Bill
>From: <JohnCallarman@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
>America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
>America"<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] Howdy
>Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:53:28 -0500
>
>It has dawned on me that, though I've sent a line or two to the IRCA list
>since I came on board a few weeks ago, I've never introduced myself through
>any of the club's functions, except at the Columbus, Ohio, convention in
>1975 ... the only IRCA convention I've been able to attend.
>
>If I were to link for my old Jaycee ties, I could call myself a double
>exhausted rooster, having turned 70 in June of this year. I invented DX'ing
>(or thought I did) in October 1947, in Corvallis, Oregon, just 11 miles
>from
>Albany, which appears to be a significant IRCA QTH these days. It wasn't
>until 1950, when I discovered Kenneth R. Boord's International Shortwave
>column in the old Radio & TV News that I realized that what I was doing was
>DX'ing.
>
>Unfortunately, I didn't join a club until 1955, when I became a member of
>two now-defunct organizatons, the Newark News Radio Club and the Universal
>Radio DX Club. I began my broadcasting career in Corvallis, doing color and
>half-time and post-game statistics for, first KRUL-1340 and, later,
>KCOV-1240, while I was still in high school. I also was sports editor for
>the CHS student newspaper and wrote all the high school sports for the
>Corvallis Gazette-Times from my sophomore year in high school on. Big
>thrill
>for the pun-lover in me came in 1952-53 ... the athletic rivalry between
>Corvallis High and Albany High was called the Civil War, and in the fall of
>'52, my Spartans beat the Bulldogs, 18-12. My lead in the G-T: "The Civil
>War turned into the War of 1812 this year" ... Basketball season rolled
>around and be darned if Corvallis didn't beat Albany, 54-40. Yes, my lead
>was "The Civl War turned into 54-40 or Fight this year ..."
>
>My first full-time radio job was at KCOV (now KFLY) and when I QSL'd a
>tape-recorded reception report from the late Roy Millar, then of Issaquah,
>Washington, he 1) arranged a DX Test from KCOV, the first of several that I
>have run, and 2) touted me onto the National Radio Club. That spring I had
>volunteered for the draft, entered the Army and DX'd from Aschaffenburg,
>Germany, while at the same time, current IRCA board member Pete Taylor was
>DX'ing from a Coast Guard ship headquartered in Hawaii, plying the South
>Pacific, and Jack Hathaway was DX'ing from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he
>was an Air Force NCO at the American Embassy. Pete and Jack were later to
>have a further place in my life ... which are two whole n'other stories.
>
>When I was in the service, my folks moved to Canyon, Texas, and I followed
>them to the Panhandle when I mustered out in 1958. About the time I moved
>to
>Canyon, 17 miles south of Amarillo, a student at Amarillo High School named
>Larry Godwin joined the National Radio Club and, at one time, we actually
>had eight MWBC DX'ers in and around Amarillo, including Jack Hathaway,
>whose
>last assignment before retiring from the Air Force was Amarillo Air Force
>Base.
>
>One of the ironies of this whole thing is that Larry Godwin was to teach
>for
>a while at Oregon State in Corvallis before he settled at the University of
>Montana.
>
>Other stops along the way to retirement in Krum, Texas for me were radio
>stations in Hereford, Amarillo, Tulia, Pampa, Fort Worth and Houston,
>Texas;
>Monroe, Louisiana (where I part-timed during a career-detour as a Social
>Security Administration bureaucrat); Cambridge, Massachusetts and Mt.
>Vernon, Illinois. After 11 years as news director/sports play-by-play man
>at
>WMIX, the Mt. Vernon Register-News hired me as an editor, and the my last
>19
>years of paychecks came via print journalism.
>
>I've DX'ed with a Wards Airline five-tube tabletop set, on which I heard
>New
>Zealand on 650 from Corvallis, a Hallicrafters S-38A, a war surplus
>BC-342N,
>which covered 1470-1600 in the broadcast band (and on which I heard 2 kw.
>2CN, Canberra, on 1540 in 1956); an HQ-160, a DX-150, an HQ-180; and, more
>recently, an NRD 525.
>
>I did a little volunteer work for the NRC in the '60s ... IDXD editor,
>publisher, editor and typist for the first NRC Log in 1968 ... and am now
>writing a DX history column for NRC called "Memory Dredging," stealing the
>title from a column written by my all-time radio hero, Jim Hawthorne, on
>the
>now defunct webzine, Radio Digest.
>
>I was one of five founding members in 2002 of the "Corazon DX" reflector,
>which specializes in DX'ing México, which is now my primary DX interest.
>Since moving to Krum, about 35 miles north of Dallas-Fort Worth, I've taped
>IDs for about 140 XE stations from my final location. I have shared some
>extensive information I've collected on BCB stations in México with James
>Niven, for use in the IRCA Mexican log.
>
>I first joined IRCA shortly after it changed its name from National Radio
>Club, Inc., and have been a member, off and on, since some time in 1964. I
>anticipate being a more active participant in IRCA, as well as in NRC, ABDX
>and other lists that have been and are being established.
>
>I believe in sharing, and will try to do a better job here and elsewhere in
>hopes that whatever we old-timers can do to bring newcomers into our hobby
>can keep the hobby alive, if not growing.
>
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:12:13 -0400
From: David Hochfelder <david.hochfelder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IRCA] WATR
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Hi Paul,
They're the dominant one on channel here in central Jersey.
Dave
Hey Dave:
Good job on WATR catch............ I never heard them, even when I was in
Connecticut myself.
Paul Walker
WTIR 1300
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:14:41 -0400
From: David Hochfelder <david.hochfelder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IRCA] IRCA and NRC
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Seconded. (However, I'm a former and likely future IRCA member and
current NRC member.)
I never understood why there are two national AM DXing clubs, politics
and personalities aside.
Les Rayburn wrote:
I move that we open discussions to combine the NRC and IRCA. Do I hear
a second?
73,
Les Rayburn, N1LF
NRC/IRCA Broadcast Test Coordinator
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:15:15 -0400
From: Bill B <ka2emz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Howdy
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Patrick Martin wrote:
>John,
>
>Great to hear from you and I always enjoy your historical postings. It
>is always interesting to hear from others on their history. You have had
>a lot of it too. Of course your name is very well known and has been for
>many years. Your in the same age group as my DX buddy Dave Williams who
>turned 71 this year. I just wish DX was bit like it was when you
>started. I can dream can't I? hi.
>
>73,
>
>Patrick
>
>Patrick Martin
>Seaside OR
>KAVT Reception Manager
>
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>
I feel if ANARC had not been dissolved in March of 2005, what the NRC
has done as to their list would not of occured- they would of heard from
other ANARC member clubs regarding such action; now they hear from
individual DXers and its a "so what, don't join if you don't want"
thought process.
73s
Bill
KA2EMZ
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:20:25 -0700
From: mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)
Subject: Re: [IRCA] E-Mail Lists & The Future of the Hobby
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mailing list for the International Radio
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No Merger...not ever!!!!
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KAVT Reception Manager
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:29:42 -0700
From: mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Howdy
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mailing list for the International Radio
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Bill,
I never thought of ANARC in this case. You are probably right. Some
wondered if ANARC was much good. Now in this case, they probably would
have stepped in. Too bad they aren't around any longer. The NRC BOD is
not concerned with input from the subscribers (as they call them). I
very much like a Democratic club like the IRCA, where we all have a
voice.
73,
Patrick
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KAVT Reception Manager
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:32:58 -0700
From: mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)
Subject: Re: [IRCA] IRCA and NRC
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mailing list for the International Radio
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The differences between the way the two clubs are run is the situation.
The IRCA votes on everything, conventions, Board members, President,
issues. We all have a voice. The NRC BOD decides everything with no
input from anyone. We have seen this first hand with the NRC list.
Patrick
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KAVT Reception Manager
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