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Re: [IRCA] IRCA DX Monitor on DVD Wonderful!!!!

--- Begin Message --- Besides all the great DX we used to enjoy, it should also be mentioned that reading about the actual DXers of yesteryear should also be quite enlightening.
There are quite a few names whose legend has lived on - long after they have either passed away or left the hobby.
I got into IRCA sometime in the mid '70s, a couple of years after I'd joined NRC, even though my actual DXing goes back to 1960 (age 10-11). My early days of DXing autobiography is still online at ' http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/wa1ion_history.htm '.
One thing I miss is all the Latin Americans that were on 5 kHz and other splits. Suriname 725 was the ten-ton gorilla here in coastal MA, but there were many more from South American, Central American, and Caribbean countries that are now impossible to hear (= no more AM) or nearly impossible (few stations, low power, heavy US/Cuba/Canada QRM).
To keep down the clutter, I'll refrain from having everyone else's chatter appended to the bottom of my message. 

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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