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Re: [IRCA] 30 years of DXing
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] 30 years of DXing
- From: "HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS" <DAVID.HASCALL@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:00:59 -0400
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- Thread-topic: 30 years of DXing
These biographies are incredible. I hope that someone can take the time
and capture them. It transcends the IRCA by itself into the larger DX
hobby. Hopefully someone can collect them all and place them on the web
for all to see.
Awesome!
73,
Dave in Indy
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:07:33 -0700
From: Randy Seaver <randy.seaver@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] 30 years of DXing
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Hi old friends and new,
I've been reading the IRCA-online messages for several months now, and
have been enjoying the posts about TP and LA DX especially.
Bob Coomler's post brought back some memories, and I want to correct one
name in it - it was Tom Colthurst, not Tom Seaver (I wish!). Add Randy
Lee to the list too, he was my best friend for awhile in the early 60s.
I started with station survey collecting in 1959, meeting Randy Lee at
the Little League field where our brothers were playing baseball. I
succumbed to the allure of Medium Wave DXing in 1962 and was able to
hear many TPs, DUs and LAs from San Diego. I added TAs in 1964 in the
fantastic sunspot minimum that year and was really hooked on foreign
DXing. I joined NRC in 1962 and then IRCA soon after it started, and
stayed a member of both until around 1990. Editing the DX Worldwide
column for several years in the 1960s (maybe 1866-1968?) was fun, and
learning about and then writing about medium wave propagation was an
intellectual challenge. The listening ended when the R-390 and HQ-180
crapped out in the 1980s, when the girls were young, and I got hooked on
genealogy research (and still am). I do scan the dial in the car
occasionally while I'm waiting for someone to show up.
My email address is rjseaver@xxxxxxx if anyone wants to contact me and
share memories. Linda and I are still in Chula Vista (south of San
Diego), our two daughters are married with two children each, and life
is pretty good. I retired after 35 years at Rohr in 2002, and do
teaching, speaking and writing about genealogy topics to fill my time.
Cheers -- Randy
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