Re: [IRCA] 30 years of DXing

[Randy Seaver <randy.seaver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi old friends and new,

I've been reading the IRCA-online messages for several months now, and 
have been enjoying the posts about TP and LA DX especially.

Bob Coomler's post brought back some memories, and I want to correct one 
name in it - it was Tom Colthurst, not Tom Seaver (I wish!).  Add Randy 
Lee to the list too, he was my best friend for awhile in the early 60s.

I started with station survey collecting in 1959, meeting Randy Lee at 
the Little League field where our brothers were playing baseball.  I 
succumbed to the allure of Medium Wave DXing in 1962 and was able to 
hear many TPs, DUs and LAs from San Diego.  I added TAs in 1964 in the 
fantastic sunspot minimum that year and was really hooked on foreign 
DXing.  I joined NRC in 1962 and then IRCA soon after it started, and 
stayed a member of both until around 1990.   Editing the DX Worldwide 
column for several years in the 1960s (maybe 1866-1968?) was fun, and 
learning about and then writing about medium wave propagation was an 
intellectual challenge.  The listening ended when the R-390 and HQ-180 
crapped out in the 1980s, when the girls were young, and I got hooked on 
genealogy research (and still am).   I do scan the dial in the car 
occasionally while I'm waiting for someone to show up.

My email address is rjseaver@xxxxxxx if anyone wants to contact me and 
share memories.  Linda and I are still in Chula Vista (south of San 
Diego), our two daughters are married with two children each, and life 
is pretty good.  I retired after 35 years at Rohr in 2002, and do 
teaching, speaking and writing about genealogy topics to fill my time.

Cheers -- Randy
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