On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:15:04 -0700, DEFCON 88 wrote:

Does anyone else want to please tell us about the first radio that got
you into DX-ing?

PLEASE! This is one of the few on-topic posts in this group in a long
time. My Hallicrafter's S-120 netted me a lot of the "big name" QSLs
inthe '60s. My mother wondered why I was getting stuff from China, Cuba,
and the Eastern European countries!