"Brian Hill" wrote in message
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What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was
1975 or
1976.

I'd listened for several years before becoming interested
in QSLs enough to request them every once in a while.
For the most part, I chased Pirates simply because it
was interesting to try to find them on 7415. My old period
of listening to shortwave ended not too long after I got
married and in the ensuing merge of stuff into one
apartment, the shortwave equipment kind of got stuck
in a cornerI didn't listen to shortwave much for a
period of several years in the mid-90s. Then, several years
later (1999), I caught the shortwave bug again after my
daughter's birth in late '98 gave me a reason to stay up for
a late feeding. (Having a house then helped a lot in making
sure that I had space for my stuff.)

Old Period: C-SIC (Pirate Station), ~1993.
New Period: Radio Austria International, 1999. (Even
got my letter read on the air, too.)

--Mike L.