Re: [IRCA] 1500th station heard in Maryland!

["Tim Hall" <timhall1@xxxxxxxxx>]

I started the day I moved here (July 4, 1976), but with a large gap shortly afterward:

 

I DXed here from 1976-1978 with a Realistic DX150B and no awareness of what a decent antenna could do for MW.  I got a few hundred stations (including one or two from Japan) and thought I had hit a wall at that point.

 

I switched to SW from 1978-1984, so I missed out on some really good years when stations still had SPs.

 

In 1984, I joined IRCA and bought an ICF2001 (followed by a '2010 and NRC membership in 1985).  I also bought a Radio West Loop at this time, which caused my totals to increase rapidly in the 80s before the clears got completely messed up. 

 

Neil Kazaross and I had some very successful sessions at the 2 San Diego beverage DX sites that he masterminded around 1989-1990.  We had a few nights where we logged as many as 20 new stations in a single session.
 

I switched to a KIWA Loop when that came out in the 1990s.

 

Conditions here in San Diego have been horrible the last 8 years or so.. tons of noise and tons of slop from poorly-maintained overmodulated stations and presumed perennial cheaters like XEPE.  I'm not home right now, so I don't remember my exact San Diego totals, but it's about 1310 stations in about 40 states plus DC, and a total of 31 countries.  I don't count call changes, and I almost never count stations returning to the air after extended lapses, unless I know it's really a new operation with a new transmitter site, etc.  There are a couple dozen talking houses in there, but I only count one per realtor per channel per "community" unless I hear two different ones simultaneously, which has actually happened with one realtor (I say "community" because the city limits for San Diego are over 40 miles from north to south).

 

These days my San Diego totals don't change much; I mainly DX when I travel (and I try to choose DX friendly locations to stay overnight).  This year I'll probably start taking the RW Loop with me for use in remote locations where the gain of the RW loop might be more valuable than the sensitivity of the KIWA loop...

 

73,

Tim
 

On 3/29/06, Charles A & Leonor L Taylor <calltaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:

At 10:22 AM 3/29/2006, you wrote:
>Well done Bill!  I have been crawling ever since I hit 1300 a few years
>ago.  About the only way I will get to 1500 is if someone sets up a couple
>hundred talking houses around here :)
>73, Tim

Tim.

Very well done! When did you start DXing MW?

73 de Charlie

            ---------
Charles A & Leonor L Taylor
  Greenville, North Carolina


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