[DX-CHAT] Re: Real DX

2007-10-04 Thread John Warren
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

Re: [DX-CHAT] Re: Real DX

2007-10-04 Thread nick cominos
I also had an SX 100 and what a thrill it was to hear Sputnik. vy 73, Nick W9UM - Original Message - 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