frank halaburak wrote:

Nice job Steve, how long have you been a SWL ?
Frank,
Montreal,Canada

I started SWL'ing in 1966-67 when my father and I built a Knight-Kit Star
Roamer. I never really got into the hobby to deeply then.

I really got into the hobby in 1981-82 when I was off from school for
Christmas break and looking for something to do I got the old Knight-Kit out.
One thing led to another and I purchased a Yaesu FRG-7700 in March of '82.
The rest is history I guess!

It took me about 12 years to get 200 countries QSL'd, the last 9 years I
haven't made much progress as I think I slacked off a bit! We'll see if I can
pry a few more outta the system this season.

Steve
Holland, MI


I'm guessing you have quite a few QSL's from countries that no longer
exist, right? They must be very cool to look at. I tried desperately
just to get a passport stamp from Hong Kong before it became China.
Didn't manage it. An old girlfriend of mine had her grandmother's
passport from pre-Bolshevik Russia. There's something bizarrely
interesting about historical orphans like that.


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Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

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Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)