Re: [IRCA] new returning member

["Chris Black" <n1cp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chuck, Good to hear the shirt is still hanging in there. Would appreciate 
your input on equipment. Perhaps we could get together sometime. I am very 
flexible.
Best de Chris

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chuck Hutton
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:14 PM
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IRCA] new returning member

Back in Black! Still have the DX shirts?
Chuck

> From: n1cp@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:41:24 -0700
> Subject: [IRCA] new returning member
>
> Having first dabbled in SW, I was first introduced to MW DXing in the mid 
> 80’s when I lived in Lynwood and wondered why I couldn’t get the same 
> loggings with my NRD-515 and a piece of wire out the window from my 
> apartment as I saw reported by Mark Connelly! Boy did I have a lot to 
> learn!
>
>
>
> Life and trying to keep from starving to death kept interfering with my 
> Dxing but I managed to plug along, learning little by little from many in 
> this group, attending conventions and get-to-gethers as well as Grayland 
> outings when I was in the Seattle area visiting my daughter. Along the 
> way, I got licensed but always kept MW Dxing on the front burner while 
> living on Cape Cod for the last 17 years.
>
>
>
> Always eclectic, I dabbled in utilities, NDBs and some of the esoteric 
> modes as a diversion but managed to log over 100 countries on MW from Cape 
> Cod locations and Prince Edward Island. It’s hard to ignore the thrill of 
> hearing KFI and Japan from the east coast. Of course, having room for 
> antennas like the  flag, delta, super loop, K9AY, beverage, etc was a 
> decided advantage and I was fortunate to count as fellow DXers and friends 
> the likes of Mark Connelly, Bruce Conti and other legendary Dxers.
>
>
>
> But, as I approached the seventh inning stretch of this game, my wife's 
> health prompted a move back to Washington to be closer to family. I now 
> live in a planned community in Redmond where antennas are as verboten as a 
> t-bone to a vegetarian. Having unloaded all radio equipment before the 
> move, I was despairing of ever re-connecting with the hobby. But we Dxers 
> are a resilient lot and so I throw myself on the mercy of the collected 
> wisdom of the group for suggestions as to radios, SDRs, antennas, etc so 
> that I might stay in the game from my modest digs in Trilogy at Redmond 
> Ridge..
>
>
>
> My best to all and its good to be back.
>
> 73 de Chris Black
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