Fifty years ago this week, a fourteen year old shortwave listener tuned his
ancient Hallicrafters S40B to 20.005 Megacycles and was able to hear a weak,
scratchy beeb-beeb-bee from Sputnik I.
What is Dx? To a 14 year old kid that was REAL DX.
To those of you that have been around
Indeed it has John, and I too listened to Sputnik on my S40, but
can't remember if it was an A or B.
I was 18 then, and am still enjoying it.
73,
Mike, W5UC
At 12:33 PM 10/4/2007, J Dyer wrote:
Fifty years ago this week, a fourteen year old shortwave listener tuned his
ancient
Yes indeed!
Stephen King wrote a book called Danse Macabre in which he revealed his
philosophy about writing horror stories. He outlined the launching of
Sputnik and the impact it had on him. The method in which he found out
about it was rather dramatic.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, 4 Oct
I'm was only 5 months old... my memory isn't that
sharp!!! lol
73;
Kurt - W2MW
--- J Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fifty years ago this week, a fourteen year old
shortwave listener tuned his
ancient Hallicrafters S40B to 20.005 Megacycles and
was able to hear a weak,
scratchy
John AE5B wrote:
Fifty years ago this week, a fourteen year old shortwave listener tuned his
ancient Hallicrafters S40B to 20.005 Megacycles and was able to hear a weak,
scratchy beeb-beeb-bee from Sputnik I.
What is DX? To a 14 year old kid that was REAL DX.
To those of you that have been
Yea, I remember... I was 17!! That was the same week Fats Domino was suing
Elvis!!
His Hound Dog pooped on Blue Berry Hill!!
Bill
- Original Message -
From: Mike(W5UC) Kathy(K5MWH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx-chat@njdxa.org
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:21
Fifty years ago the S40B was not ancient. Now I am ancient but I remember
as a teenager carefully tuning the SX-25 and finally hearing the weak beeps.
It was thrilling then and I still get nervous when I finally hear a NEW ONE.
What fun!
Bill W5EC
Fifty years ago this week, a fourteen year old
I also had an SX 100 and what a thrill it was to hear Sputnik.
vy 73,
Nick W9UM
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From: John Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: dx-chat@njdxa.org
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:48 PM
Subject: [DX-CHAT] Re: Real DX
John AE5B wrote:
Fifty years ago this week, a
