Reading the posts by Lee Freshwater and John Callarman left me feeling saddened and nostalgic. Saddened for the obvious decline of AM radio and our DXing hobby, and saddened to see two of our legendary DXers signing off. And nostalgic for those magical winter nights when I was a teen in the 1950s-60s, listening first with a little Zenith table radio, then with a Hallicrafters S-85, feeling the excitement of hearing 1 or 5 kw stations in California from my western PA QTH, or the OCs suddenly bursting into the SSB with the s/on of a 500 watter in the deep South, or the barely audible 1YZ on 800, or the amazing signals from daytimers doing Monday-AM FCs or ETs or DX tests on actual clear channels, or the evening parade of s/offs on 1580 progressing westward every 15 minutes, or the astonishing morning when HCJB-1310 faded up to top the channel after sunrise for a once-in-a lifetime clear ID, or typing my report to NRC's DX News and sending it off...
Well, as the song says, everything must change, nothing stays the same...but it's been a great ride, and I'm glad for all of us who got to be a part of it! _______________________________________________ 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]
