I had been saying to myself recently, "Remember the good old days in the 1970's and 1980's when we looked forward to the arrival of our favourite DX Club magazine?
And how I wished that it would have been nice to keep a couple of copies of my personal favourite, SPEEDX. Although my contributions were generally pretty light, it was one of the highlights of the DX/SWL experience: to actually contribute to something - to be part of something as exciting as DXing was way back when. I had done a few Google searches over the years - finding nothing other than a footnote in history - a short explanation of what SPEEDX was and its impact on the scene. Imagine my delight when I found an online resource of dozens and dozens of PDF downloads of the magazines! http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Speedx.htm Some months and years are missing but there is hope that those of us that held on to the zines over the years may fill in the holes. I imagine a few of us on HCDX, IRCA and others were part of this mania at the time - there was nothing like it in the years to come - Sure, these are interesting radio times but there was something about the early days of youth and innocence and the sheer freshness of the radio experience early on. And to those of you on the list, that were once members of a Shortwave radio club with a monthly self-published zine... Hello! Remember the good old days? -- Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> - VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
