Haha, this Monocle thread just made DX Listening Digest! Cool! Glenn, I am a very casual listener these days, as real life seems to have taken over in my life long ago. My personal DXing golden age was back in the late 1970s and well into the 1980s, and very heavily weighted towards Medium Wave (ex-IRCA member).
But, you are still out there, Glenn, voraciously gathering the data, culling it, and disseminating it to the world. I have never met you, but anytime I hear that WoR intro music and your voice, or see your GH initials in a bandscan list or posting, I feel like an old friend is talking to me. So, I just wanted to take this time to thank you for all of your hard work over the decades, and best wishes for even more to come! As an aside, since I am thinking about it now, the only time I have ever met anyone related to our radio DXing hobby, was Neil Kazaross. I can only chuckle now when I think of how I naively presented myself upon his doorstep that one dark evening sometime around 1983 (?) in Ogunquit Beach, Maine. We used to vacation there in the summers when I was younger, living in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and I had to have my parents drive me over to Neil's house. I think I only sprang the totally unsolicited visit upon Neil by calling him from the end of his street and asking if I could visit and see a real DX'ers radio setup. I just wanted to meet him, and see a real Collins R-390, a Yaesu FRG-7700, an Icom R70, or whatever he was listening to at the time. I wanted to see how big a loop antenna was, and I wanted to hear some of those low-powered, distant, and exotic, Columbian and Brazilian stations he was picking up on his wicked coastal beverage antenna! He was like a DX superstar in my eyes, and I was in awe; and for that one hour, he was so pleasant and accommodating to me. Obviously, I have never forgotten the experience, and I very much thank him, too. Wow, I just Googled him, and discovered that he is now a world master of backgammon!! Amazing. Oh well, enough reminiscing in these early hours, good night everyone. John Sullivan Cary, North Carolina Logitech Squeezebox Boom iPad / iPod touch running various iOS audio apps (TuneIn, Monocle 24, Stitcher, Pandora, etc.) iHome iD85 paired w/above iOS devices/apps iMac w/Radioshift > > On Mar 20, 2012, at 12:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been studying the newest ABC Radio National schedule and became >> interested in a new overnight "feature" referenced in that schedule as >> "Monocle". So, I've done some investigating and this is what I've learned. >
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