Re: [IRCA] Milestone: 2K!

["Jim Renfrew" <jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barry,

    Very impressive for less than 10 years.  I'm at 2200, though that has 
about 200 call changes mixed in (that I could extract from the list if 
necessary, but it would take a lot of time!), but it took me about 30 years, 
with a 4 year hiatus when I was in graduate school in New York City. 
Although I am in a rural area west of Rochester now, most of my 2200 were 
dug out of the ether in a very urban environment, with only a Space Magnet 
loop, and a short wire in the back yard.  Onward to 3000!

Jim Renfrew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry McLarnon" <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 4:02 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Milestone: 2K!


> I've been sitting at 1999 AM stations logged for the last week or two,
> anticipating the time when something would pop up to push me up to 2000, a
> longtime goal.  This happened last night, but I didn't get much time to
> savour the moment, as a flurry of Spanish loggings quickly pushed me up to
> 2004!
>
> Anyway, I'm happy to get there, especially with rapidly rising local noise
> levels and the coming of IBOC leading to greatly diminished DX prospects.
> I've been AM DXing since the beginning of 1998 (all from the same location 
> in
> Ottawa ON), so I missed out on the glory years of silent periods and the
> like.  Due to space restrictions, I also haven't used anything bigger than 
> a
> 66 ft dipole for an antenna.  My log shows a total of 1532 US stations in 
> 47
> states plus DC, 171 Canadian stations in 10 provinces, and 298 stations in 
> 58
> other countries (that only adds up to 2001 stations, so it seems I've 
> missed
> a few in this breakdown).  For the record, I don't count callsign changes 
> in
> my totals.  I also don't collect veries, but I have a pretty big 
> collection
> of recordings!
>
> Barry
>
> -- 
> Barry McLarnon  VE3JF  Ottawa, ON
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