Joe, Thank you. There have been other DXers that have received more than 3,000 in the past. Ernie Cooper for one with 4500. I always admired him for his work in the QSL field, also Arthur Cushen from New Zealand. These were the pioneers in the hobby. No, I never even have visited Fairbanks. I lived in Alaska from 55-67 and started DXing there in Seward in 1962, after I found an old radio on a garbage rack on my way home from school one afternoon. I remember my mother not wanting me to plug in the radio until my father got home. He got home and I plugged it in and turned it on and it worked. I think it was a Zenith, AM only as I remember. It was pretty sensitive as it got the 4 Anchorage stations without an outside antenna 75 miles away and through lots of high leaded mountains Including KBYR 1270 1 KW at the time. That night, stations were all over the dial from end to end. Within a couple years I was hearing 1 KW Japanese an Taiwanese stations and Europeans over the pole in the Winter.
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