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W1VT

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2022, 06:41:42 AM »

I heard Radio Australia with a Radio Shack regenerative receiver kit.
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N8YX

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #31 on: January 03, 2022, 07:17:36 AM »

I heard Radio Australia with a Radio Shack regenerative receiver kit.
April 1981...worked a VK5 on 10M w/ 5w from my TS-520S into a CB ground plane and got an RST of 589. (Still have the card and the logbook.) When the ionosphere cooperates, magical things can happen with low power levels. If not, the biggest Brown-Boveri SWBC transmitter in the world (remember those?) is going to have a hard time reaching its target audience.
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W4HRL

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #32 on: January 03, 2022, 08:40:19 AM »

I remember fondly.  Mid 1970's in Tucson Arizona, Yaesu FRG-7, heard broadcast station from Papua New Guinea.  It was thrilling!  I submitted a report and still have their response and card around here somewhere.

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Mike in Poquoson VA
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K5LXP

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« Reply #33 on: January 03, 2022, 10:15:08 AM »

Radio Nederland, and their experimental Sinclair data broadcasts in the early 80's.  Then, in the USAF overseas picking up WRNO "Rock of the World" which in pre-internet days was a pretty amazing thing to hear direct.

Mark K5LXP
Albuquerque, NM
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K5UX

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #34 on: January 13, 2022, 01:27:41 AM »

HCJB Quito, Ecuador on a Knight kit Span Master I built back in the 60’s. It was a 2 tube regenerative circuit. My antenna was a piece of wire under the house.
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K0XY

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« Reply #35 on: September 16, 2022, 09:33:30 PM »

...HCJB, Quito in the early 1960's...sparked my interest in SWL and Hamming !!!

Ronnie K0XY
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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #36 on: September 16, 2022, 10:21:21 PM »

Listening to Radio Moscow and Kol Israel on my "new" Hammarlund BC-779 in 1967. You could read with light from the S-meter and the audio from a 12" speaker in a simple baffle was FB.
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« Reply #37 on: September 16, 2022, 11:10:43 PM »

My first SW Broadcast station was Swiss World Radio on 9.535 Mcs.  I was using the family's RCA console radio which had 3 SW bands in addition to the standard BCB.  It was around 1952 & I was 12 years old. The antenna was a 25 ft. long wire running along the stairs leading up to the second floor of our row house in Philadelphia.  Other stations quickly followed including the BBC, DW, Radio Brazzaville, Radio Moscow, HCJB & Radio Nederland with Eddie Startz - "Stay in touch with the Dutch".  Also missionary stations 4VEH in Haiti and ELWA from Liberia.  I too have "that" QSL card from Radio Brazzaville - Hi.  Anyway good memories.
Tony,  N6DXX
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KD6VXI

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« Reply #38 on: September 17, 2022, 04:25:18 AM »

I came late to the game.  First Dx was listening to my grandpa's CB while he was finishing installing it in 76.  A few days later he let me play with his short wave radio, a GE.

I don't remember whom was my first SW DX, but that instilled in me a lifelong love of radio.  Made a sometimes career out of it.

Grandpa is gone now, but I kept that GE short wave radio.  Miss the days of being to find a station anywhere in the world.  Miss the days of it just being magic, how all those voices could make it into my little radio in California.

Miss grandpa more.  But every time I turn my radio on I crack a smile thinking about him.

--Shane
WP2ASS / ex KD6VXI
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« Reply #39 on: September 17, 2022, 05:43:18 AM »

In 1960 my grandfather had a 4 tube AC/DC Heathkit AR-2 radio. And about 100 feet or wire from the attic of his garage where it was out to a tree in his orchard. I was listening to the BBC and Radio Moscow news casts and they were talking about stuff in the USA like it was a foreign country. First time I ever heard someone not from the USA. Fascinated me. Got my Novice license a year later and have been active with an HF station on the air every day since. Some chapters in life the station was minimalist -- but the bug that bit me listening to short wave back then is still in me.
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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #40 on: September 17, 2022, 06:29:51 AM »

HCJB was very loud in New Orleans. Very exciting.  The receiver was a Hallicrafters S-108 and the antenna was wire tossed out the window. Radio Moscow was always a hoot!  I still have pile of SW QSL's from 1964/65. 
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KD4QMY

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« Reply #41 on: September 17, 2022, 12:24:21 PM »

The BBC - London - in 1973 using a Hallicrafters S38C with a wire stretched across the room.  Later routed a long wire outside for better reception.  Received a Zenith Royal D70000Y TransOceanic as a gift in 1976.  Still have the Hallicrafters and the Zenith. 
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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #42 on: September 17, 2022, 01:28:15 PM »

My first overseas shortwave reception was Radio RSA (Johannesburg, SA - sadly since a long time QRT) in 1976 - I was twelve years old. I still have very sentimental memories of it and of course also the QSL card. The receiver was an old Graetz Musica 4R tube radio from 1954, which I still own today (I bought this radio in 1976 at a local flea market for 20 Deutsch Marks - back then a lot of cash for a schoolboy with little money in his pocket). With great pleasure I remember back to these times, which also paved my way to HAM radio.

Thank you Radio RSA - you have turned my life in a very meaningful direction!
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« Reply #43 on: September 17, 2022, 02:00:29 PM »

From the welcome page of my website https://www.kg4lac.com

"I've enjoyed receiving distant signals since the 1960's. Began when I received my first transistor radio as a gift. I listened to the boss jocks on local KQV, but why stop there? Also, too easy watching local Pittsburgh TV. Why do so when I occasionally received exotic Altoona or Johnstown TV."
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