> Bob Foxworth wrote: > > > I took the hydrofoil to Macau and met the CE of Radio Vila > > Verde-735 and nice studio/xmtr tour, also of his ham shack > > (CR9AH a very famous ham DXer then). > > Did you discuss veries? I don't recall anyone ever getting a verie > out of them (including me). > > Pete Taylor
I don't specifically recall a lot about veries being said, it did not seem particularly significant. RVV 735 was mainly in Chinese when I was there, they had a little station on 1200, I think, in Portuguese which had been reported in Europe. The CE was from Portugal and spoke English fairly well. His name was John Alvarez. I still have a blank QSL card he gave me, somewhat ironic as, despite working some 270 countries, Macau (now XX9) was not one of them. I'm not about to try to "fill it in" either. The station was, I thought, quite modern for the time. I met him by asking about it (RVV) when the hydrofoil docked at the pier, and I bought my visa (an elaborate thing all in Portuguese that filled the entire page of my passport, still have it) and someone phoned the radio station for me and he was there later on to meet me, did some sightseeing, walked up to the Chinese border (doesn't take long to get there, in this place). I remember his mentioning some reports mainly from Aust and NZ. Were they not QSLing in 1965? Had no reason to suspect they were "black", must have been in later years? By this time it had been several months since I had seen a copy of DX News so I wasn't particularly up to date with DX issues. After all this time I have visual memories but less so of what might have been talked about. This fellow was very gracious to devote the amount of time to me that he did, and I was not about to say anything critical (e.g DO YOU QSL!!!?) Pete you may recall a month or so after that when we had a visit at your place in SFO. This was after crossing the Pacific, 11 days JPN-HI and 6 days HI-SF) Two typhoons. Daytime reception of KMTH-900 one day near Midway. I remember DXing at your place and listening to ZCO mixing with KDKA, late in the evening, playing the "Baby Elephant Walk" for one.. Should have asked me about QSLs then - hi - Bob _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
