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Re: [IRCA] YAHOOOOOO…NEW STATE # 48 on AM-BCB This morning!!

That was also my only stamp. 3/15/63 was they night I logged first KOA, then KSL and then KFI, each for the first time, an hour apart from each from NJ. All veried, and I've never heard KFI again and only KSL once - also in NJ. Neither from here.


Russ Edmunds

WB2BJH

Blue Bell, PA

Grid FN20id

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From: IRCA <irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] YAHOOOOOO…NEW STATE # 48 on AM-BCB This morning!!

OK, you started it.  Here goes … I remember the time my dad brought home a Nems-Clark field strength meter from WILS where he was CE and we stood in the basement, tuned to 640, nulled the Cuban on-freq and got KFI!  Probably 9 or 10pm EST from Lansing, MI.  I’ll bet they never got a DX report with a field strength measurement before!  ;-)  As I recall it was a 200-300 microvolts/meter.

That QSL was my ONLY DX stamp!  Nice letter from the CE too.

I was about 13 years old and hopelessly hooked!

“Those were the days!”

Did someone already say that?

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> On Jan 18, 2018, at 4:30 PM, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My shack here for the first 20 years was 2 HQ 150's and tuned loops also in the basement. I determined that as long as I wasn't going past about 1400 miles, the arrival angle was workable.
>
>
> At 1565 miles, I couldn't get a peep from KOA-850 down there, even when it was fully readable on the car radio in the garage at grade level !
>
>
> From NJ, I also was able to take 1580 to CA twice in the early 1970's - KDAY in 1973 and KWIP in 1976. Those were the days !
>
>
> Russ Edmunds
>
> WB2BJH
>
> Blue Bell, PA
>
> Grid FN20id
>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 4:20:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] YAHOOOOOO…NEW STATE # 48 on AM-BCB This morning!!
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> I did MMs and the ‘CPC trail’ for a few years back in the early/mid-70’s from Lansing, MI with a Worcester loop in the BASEMENT on a Hallicrafters SX-96 with a digital frequency display I made.
>
> Man, that was fun!  I had no idea until I came back to the hobby in 2009 how much ‘fun’ it was!
>
> Oh and sunset was a riot!  I used to sit on 1580 after our ‘local’ WRBJ in St. Johns, MI signed off and get a new station every 15 minutes many nights!  One night I got all the way to Ceres, CA!
>
> Enough time travel.  Back to figuring out when I can retire!  ;-)
>
> Yay for ‘old guys’ and ‘old days!'
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>> On Jan 18, 2018, at 3:54 PM, Neil Kazaross <neilkaz58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> MM's were fun, but I was too young to get into the heyday! I do recall from
>> Narragansett RI in the late 70's in July when almost the entire country was
>> in a heat wave. I'd spent much of the MM DXing on my phased Bevs aimed SSW
>> but before going to bed, I switched over to the Sanserino Loop. WBAL 1090
>> was off and their was no Ontario stn then. Hmm...NBC nx and a wx report for
>> high's in the 70's aimed WNW from me. This had to be Montana and a phone
>> call the next day confirmed that it was.
>>
>> 73 KAZ
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> You don't always realize until much later how good conditions were in the
>>> past.
>>>
>>>
>>> In addition to AK, I also logged OR ( KYMN-1520 on a DX Test ) MT (3), ND
>>> ( 2) WA ( 1 ), NM ( 1 ), and ID ( KBOI on both 950 and 670 ), all from
>>> Syracuse, and all with fairly marginal equipment and antenna. I did have
>>> elevation though.
>>>
>>>
>>> But that was also back in the days of not a lot of NSP'ers and lots of MM
>>> SP's ( 1964-67 ).
>>>
>>>
>>> Russ Edmunds
>>>
>>> WB2BJH
>>>
>>> Blue Bell, PA
>>>
>>> Grid FN20id
>>>
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>>> From: IRCA <irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Robert Ross <
>>> va3sw@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 3:18:41 PM
>>> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>>> Subject: Re: [IRCA] YAHOOOOOO…NEW STATE # 48 on AM-BCB This morning!!
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2018-01-18, at 2:41 PM, Neil Kazaross wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robb KBOI via sunset skip thru WSCR would be a good shot. Best up coming
>>>> time would be early Feb. I wouldn't hold my breath for KGEM as the cx to
>>>> bring that in via SSS also probably have Alberta QRM. KGEM has been heard
>>>> here only a couple of times.  73 KAZ 55 km NW of Chicago
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the tips Kaz……I'm gonna keep trying, right place and right time
>>> should bring it in…….
>>>
>>> 73…ROB VA3SW
>>>
>>> Robert S. Ross
>>> London, Ontario CANADA
>>>
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