[IRCA] 40 years of skywave DXing

[Colin Newell <cafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK. My turn...

2 Seminal moments in radio hobby... maybe 3.

Nov 3, 1973 - Bought DX150B from Radio Shack Store after owning a few old radios...
even a 6-Tube RCA from the late 30's early 40's

October 1974 - received 1st copy of World Radio TV Handbook

April 1975 - received first sample copy of CIDX Magazine
and IRCA sample a few months later.

Discovering that there was another local DXer and MW guy living
nearby and picking up the phone to introduce myself would change
everything....

That was Nick Hall-Patch.

One does not move forward within the radio hobby inside a vacuum.
Meeting other dxers and the hobby community itself IS the backbone of the entire experience.

Colin Newell is the editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com, DXer.ca and BobHarris.com
Amateur Radio VA7WWV - Victoria B.C. Canada | Twitter.com/coffeecrew
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