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![]() "dxAce" wrote in message ... David Eduardo wrote: The IRCs are often useless to the recipient. I recall in 1963 when I answered over 100 reception reports of HJED in Cali, Colombia, that the engineers had hundreds of IRCs, unused. They said that it was hard or impossible to exchange them, so they just stuffed them in an envelope. 1963? You certainly were busy that year! Between going to school in Ohio (being only 17), spending nearly the whole year in Mexico, and working at a USA radio station when Kennedy was shot... you still had the time to bop down to Colombia and fill out a few QSL's. After my internship in Mexico, I spent several months bussing through Central America, as well as Colombia and Venezuela. A few pictures are on my website... including the changing of a flat tire on the engineering vehicle along the Cali to Buga highway! Among the things I did included visiting stations and requesting veries for NRC members with outstanding reports. When I was in Cali, at La Voz del Río Cauca, I was shown a stack of unanswered DX reports. As South America's only directional medium wave station at the time, HJED got hundreds of US reports in overnights when WFFA/WBAP on 820 was / were off the air. I volunteered to answer the reports and spent a day typing them; the engineer signed and mailed them all! Many DXers still have these veries in their collections, in fact. |
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![]() David Eduardo wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... David Eduardo wrote: The IRCs are often useless to the recipient. I recall in 1963 when I answered over 100 reception reports of HJED in Cali, Colombia, that the engineers had hundreds of IRCs, unused. They said that it was hard or impossible to exchange them, so they just stuffed them in an envelope. 1963? You certainly were busy that year! Between going to school in Ohio (being only 17), spending nearly the whole year in Mexico, and working at a USA radio station when Kennedy was shot... you still had the time to bop down to Colombia and fill out a few QSL's. After my internship in Mexico, I spent several months bussing through Central America, as well as Colombia and Venezuela. A few pictures are on my website... including the changing of a flat tire on the engineering vehicle along the Cali to Buga highway! Among the things I did included visiting stations and requesting veries for NRC members with outstanding reports. When I was in Cali, at La Voz del Río Cauca, I was shown a stack of unanswered DX reports. As South America's only directional medium wave station at the time, HJED got hundreds of US reports in overnights when WFFA/WBAP on 820 was / were off the air. I volunteered to answer the reports and spent a day typing them; the engineer signed and mailed them all! Many DXers still have these veries in their collections, in fact. I certainly hope none of the postmarks would indicate that you were in two places at once! I'm LMFAO Edweener. dxAce Michigan USA |
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