Re: [IRCA] John Bryant

[mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)]

I first had contact with John back in the late 80s. He wrote me
regarding my DX here on the coast. Then in 1990 on one of his
DXpeditions to Grayland State Park, before the DXpeditions were the
Grayland Motel, Dave Williams and I went up on a Saturday afternoon to
meet John and the group. We sat there on a rather wet and rainy
afternoon taking about antennas, DX, and QSLs. I could tell John was
quite a veteran of Tropical Band DX for many years. Dave and I were
impressed from the start. We went up about once a year to visit. Then in
the Fall of 92, after I got the Drake R8, I had heard an unidentified
Sub continental Asian station on 864 khz, with an odd sounded language,
no one seemed to know what it was. John suggested I send him a cassette
of the station so he could play it for his students there at the Univ.
in Oklahoma. One of his students understood the language, coming from
the NE part of India. It turned out to be All India Radio Shillong with
100 KW. Thanks to John, as I would have never IDed it. He helped me on
others along the way too. Dave and I love going to Grayland. It wont be
the same anymore with John. 

Patrick

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