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N8YX

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Re: What was your first shortwave radio?
« Reply #345 on: October 19, 2021, 01:28:38 PM »

My DX-160 was new when I got it. Wish I still had mine. I traded it as part of a deal for a used Tempo-One. Sometimes wish I had that radio as well. It was a fun first rig.
A ton of people started out with that receiver. Its other notable general-coverage competitor of the day was the FRG-7.

I always wanted a Frog. Got two; gave one plus a restored FR-101D to a friend to get her into SWLing.
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W4HRL

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Re: What was your first shortwave radio?
« Reply #346 on: November 05, 2021, 07:00:01 PM »

My first commercial radio was the Yaesu FRG-7.  It was a great radio...I thought it was the "cat's pajamas".  That was when I was about 25 years old.

I had assembled a Knight Kit "Star Roamer" about 10 years earlier (I was about 14), but I never had much success with receiving any International broadcasters.  The "Frog 7" changed all that.

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Mike in Poquoson VA


 
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AKSWL

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Re: What was your first shortwave radio?
« Reply #347 on: November 21, 2021, 08:04:50 AM »

A Lafayette Explorer-Air super regen. From 1965. I still have it today

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John
Boise, Idaho
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N6YWU

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Re: What was your first shortwave radio?
« Reply #348 on: November 26, 2021, 09:50:53 AM »

I built a Lafayette KT-135 "Explorer-Air" 3-tube (and hot chassis) regenerative receiver kit, circa 1969.  Used it to listen in on W1AW code practice sessions.  Unfortunately, it was stolen from my parent's garage shed a couple decades ago.  Wish I still had it.
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