Re: [IRCA] Informal "poll"

[Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>]

I started in 1962 , as I knew nothing about it, picking up my first radio off a garbage rack on my way home from school. I was 13. My mother would not let me plug it in until my father got home. We plugged it in and i turned it on, catching the Anchorage AK stations from Seward (KENI-550, KHAR-590, KFQD-730, and KBYR-1270), plus our local at the time, KIBH-1340 (250w). The radio was a Zenith that had a fold down cover, a smaller version of the Oceanic. It was sensitive as all Zenith's were. Heard WA/OR/CA stations after dark. Later on about 1965 I started to hear some SW and even FM. I guess I started with MW, rather than SW. My first QSL'd from Feb 65 were KFBK 1530 and KPAY 1060.


Patrick


Patrick Martin Seaside OR KGED QSL Manager


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From: IRCA <irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:28 PM
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Subject: [IRCA] Informal "poll"

Mostly this is aimed at folks here who've been DX'ing for many years.


How many here either started out DX'ing SW or have done so along with BCB over the years ?


I started with BCB as a child, and dabbled in SW in my late teens and early twenties, then went back to BCB because to me at the time it was too easy to log multiple countries in a fairly short period of time as compared to BCB.


Russ Edmunds

WB2BJH

Blue Bell, PA

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