On 2/10/2011 3:40 PM, amandx@xxxxxxxxx wrote:Saturday will be an important date for me. It is my DX anniversary! February 12 1971 was the day I started to DX for real. I had listened a bit before but that is the first date in my Logbook. I logged KG6CF from Johnston Is in the Pacific on 28.6 mHz at 2215 GMT. And so started 40 years of DX'ing.
I don't remember the exact date I started DXing for real, or what my first DX catch was, but it would have been sometime in 1973, shortly after getting a Sony AM/FM/SW radio of some kind ("Earth Orbiter" perhaps) as a Bar Mitzvah gift. I wonder how many other Jewish DXers got their start with radios received as Bar or Bat Mitzvah gifts. I started by picking up the out of town baseball and hockey games on KMOX (Cardinals, Blues), WBZ (Bruins), WCAU (Flyers, Phillies), WJR (Tigers, Red Wings), and other clear channel blowtorches, as well as the legendary Fort Wayne Komets on WOWO.
I started listening to shortwave around the summer of1973 as well, with my first SW QSL being from HCJB, probably for a reception of DX Party Line hosted by the late Clayton Howard. My first AM QSL was WCAU-1210, for a Phillies game called by Harry Kalas and By Saam.
The Bar Mitzvah gift radio lasted me until 1978, when I got my Panasonic RF-2200 in the summer between high school and first year university.
I have an album of some of my QSLs on Facebook.. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=256888&id=532448524&l=723ec9dc64
73 Mike BrookerToronto, ON
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