Re: [IRCA] 30 years of skywave DXing

[Russ Johnson <radiok3pi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's mine

http://radiointel.net/about/

scroll about half way down.

  Russ J

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Craig Healy <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nice stories about how some folks began DXing!  Thanks!
>
> I did a fair bit of it in the early 60's.  Got a number of QSLs.  But my
> first DX was around 1955.  As a kid I used to tune my grandmother's 5-tube
> radio to find programs like Fibber McGee & Molly or Amos & Andy.  One night
> I heard a station say "And it's 7pm.."  Our clock said 8pm.  I thought he
> made a mistake but he continued and said "...in Chicago".  Chicago??  Well,
> I knew where the grocery store was, and maybe the next town, but Chicago?  I
> asked later and they said it was many miles away.  At that point radio
> seemed like magic and I continued to tune around with a different attitude.
>
> In the later 50's I used a radio in my room, another 5-tube GE type.  Didn't
> realize that the loop antenna on the back was directional.  The local 1110
> daytimer had Top-40 music I liked, but WBT in North Carolina would come in a
> while before sunset and block it.  Didn't realize all I had to do was turn
> the radio a bit and stop nulling the local station...
>
> And somewhat later I pulled a Stewart Warner radio out of a 1953 Studebaker
> and figured out how to run it off a 6.3v filament transformer.  Got all
> sorts of things on that.  Running antenna wires in the room used to drive my
> mother mildly insane.  I also used some thin stainless steel wire for a long
> wire outside antenna that didn't work at all.  If I only had realized
> stainless steel was quite lossy.
>
> Imagine if Doc Brown in "Back To The Future" had brought me a Drake R8B and
> loop antenna in 1955.  Or brought ME back to 1955.  Imagine the DX with
> today's experience!
>
> Craig Healy
> Providence, RI
>
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