Re: [IRCA] 30 years of skywave DXing

[Ira Elbert New III <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I started with a GE Clock Radio also. No, wait...I don't think there was a clock. However, it was a nightstand radio with a woodgrain finish. I guess it was the early to mid seventies for me. I would write down all of the stations I heard in White's Radio Log. My Father really got me started, since he had a Hallicrafters he used to listen to all the time. I guess I need to rescue it from my Mother's house one day soon. We also went through the CB craze together.

Bert New
Watkinsville, Georgia
Proudly Serving You Since 1964!




> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:24:42 -0700
> From: drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: [IRCA] 30 years of skywave DXing
> 
>  
> April 13, 1981.  4:30 a.m. 
>  
> In my 2nd-story bedroom in my parents' farmhouse in the middle of Pottawattamie 
> County, Iowa, I'm already up, as usual, listening to the conclusion of WOW-590's 
> nightly broadcast of the Larry King Show.  And, as usual, WOW heads right into 
> its mix of Top 40 and AdCon music immediately afterwards.  The first song is one 
> that I don't particularly care for, so I tune up the dial until I find a station 
> that is playing a song that I really like at the time, Roseanne Cash's "Seven 
> Year Ache".  At the end of the song, the DJ (whom, I would find out years later, 
> was the legendary Bill Mack) comes on and mentions during his chatter that I'm 
> listening to WBAP.  I give no second thought to this, although I'm curious as to 
> where this station is, since I've never heard it before and it sounds like it's 
> coming from Omaha.  Then I hear an advertisement that mentions...FORT WORTH.  
> I'm floored by this, as I had no idea my GE clock radio could pick up anything 
> that distant.  Over the course of the next few mornings, I hear places like Los 
> Angeles, Nashville, New York City, Chicago, Cincinnati, Toronto, Detroit, 
> Louisville, Denver, New Orleans, Winnipeg, Dallas, Little Rock, Richmond, San 
> Antonio, and others.  And at the age of 16, I'm hooked. 
> 
>  
> And THAT is how it all began.  :)  And "Seven Year Ache" still has a special 
> place in my heart.   
> 
>   
> 
> 73,
> Rick Dau
> Suth Omaha, Nebraska
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