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My start was in Northern Wisconsin at a summer camp in 1951. I lived in Des Moines at the time and had an old Silvertone “portable” at camp. One of my tent mates was from the Chicago area, was a Cubs fan and wanted to see if we could hear the games at night on WIND, 560. Of course, then, we

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I'm the buddy down the street that Billy Brooks referred to! I started around age 12 (1956) with a Zenith All-American Five table radio. Heard some remarkable BCB DX, most notably HCJB-1310. Upgraded to a Hallicrafters S-85 and 200' longwire, and all thru HS (1958-1962) enjoyed those wondrous

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I was a casual BCB DXer from 1961 (age 8) to 1966 (age 13) with a pocket transistor, but really became hooked from 1967-69 as a teenager living in Iwakuni, Japan. There were lots of interesting stations that no longer exist (AFVN-Armed Forces Vietnam Network, KSBK (?) in Okinawa, and my local

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I started with MW DX and SWBC DX in about 1972. Then Utility DX in 1974 for a couple years. Even a little FM DX in the mid-70's. Not much SWBC DX since moving to CA in 1984. Now I split my time between MW DX and Utility DX and occasionally listen for 10 meter ham beacons. Martin Foltz Mission

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1971: Sister brings home BF who is in Navy. He goes on deployment leaving her his 5-Band portable radio while he’s away. I switch it on hearing WWV for first time and a myriad of strange sounds, randomly fading signals and noises. Boom! I’m addicted. Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -

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I started in 1962 , as I knew nothing about it, picking up my first radio off a garbage rack on my way home from school. I was 13. My mother would not let me plug it in until my father got home. We plugged it in and i turned it on, catching the Anchorage AK stations from Seward (KENI-550,

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On Behalf Of James Niven Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 6:46 PM To: 'Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America' Subject: Re: [IRCA] Informal "poll" Russ, For me, I started out DXing SW when I was a teen living in Australia on June 29 1975, my first logging was Radio Ne

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--- Begin Message --- Russ- My story is just about identical to yours. Started with MW at age 12, dabbled in SW in teens, then back to MW. Marc DeLorenzo South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?228-DeLorenzo-s-Classic-DX -Original

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Russ, For me, I started out DXing SW when I was a teen living in Australia on June 29 1975, my first logging was Radio Nederland broadcasting to the Pacific region with the "Happy Station", then followed by Radio Canada International. Later in 1975, I was sharing pretty much equal time between SW

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--- Begin Message --- Hi All: BCB, pretty much exclusively from about seventh grade on. I was interested in Ham radio but never had the money to invest. When my friend Chris, who was a ham operator, moved away one of the things that drew me and Bruce Heimburger together was an interest in BCB

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SW here when I was about 12 years old. Then a little MW but also a lot of police radio listening. By my 20's I moved on to other things (women, beer, music, etc). It wasn't until my early 40s that I really got back into the hobbyand it was SW again that started it off. Keith Hingham

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Shortwave first around age 12 or 13, but quickly followed by MW, much later LW, FM and TV. My first MW DX was WHLO 640 on a very whistle-y Heathkit kit my dad and I built, a GR-100 or something like that. These days MW and FM are the priority, though I occasional dabble in the others,

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BCB first then SW much later. Sent from my iPad > On Feb 8, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote: > > Mostly this is aimed at folks here who've been DX'ing for many years. > > > How many here either started out DX'ing SW or have done so along with BCB > over the years ? >

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Russ, I started with BCB as a kid.  Probably about 10 or 11.  Our next door neighbor was carrying a LARGE old wooden Philco radio from the 40's out to the curb to throw away.  It seems that where they had it stored in the attic of a house they were renting, someone had stolen all the tubes