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Your first QSL?
What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or
1976. -- 73 and good DXing. Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire! Zumbrota, Southern MN Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/ |
Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. HCJB, via Bonaire? dxAce |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. HCJB, via Bonaire? dxAce Thanks Steve. |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. HCJB, via Bonaire? dxAce So what was yours? |
Brian Hill wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. HCJB, via Bonaire? dxAce Thanks Steve. LOL, not sure what you're thanking me for. I was wondering... HCJB was out of Quito, Ecuador... I don't recall them being via Bonaire... dxAce |
Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. Actually, I think my earliest QSL dates from January 1967. From Radio Bucharest, Romania. I may have an earlier one from 1966, but I'm not sure. dxAce |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. HCJB, via Bonaire? dxAce Thanks Steve. LOL, not sure what you're thanking me for. I was wondering... HCJB was out of Quito, Ecuador... I don't recall them being via Bonaire... dxAce Oh! I thought you were kidding me about not putting an "e" on the end :) Yep they had a relay at the time from Bonaire. B.H. |
Brian Hill wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. HCJB, via Bonaire? dxAce Thanks Steve. LOL, not sure what you're thanking me for. I was wondering... HCJB was out of Quito, Ecuador... I don't recall them being via Bonaire... dxAce Oh! I thought you were kidding me about not putting an "e" on the end :) Yep they had a relay at the time from Bonaire. Well, I know Radio Nederland did... but HCJB? I'm checking my WRTH's and don't see that. dxAce |
Radio Nederland 1976.
"Brian Hill" wrote in message ... What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. -- 73 and good DXing. Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire! Zumbrota, Southern MN Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/ |
Radio Nederland BONAIRE 1976.
"Brian Hill" wrote in message ... What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. -- 73 and good DXing. Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire! Zumbrota, Southern MN Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/ |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. HCJB, via Bonaire? dxAce Thanks Steve. LOL, not sure what you're thanking me for. I was wondering... HCJB was out of Quito, Ecuador... I don't recall them being via Bonaire... dxAce Maybe It was Trans World Radio in Bonaire via HCJB? I gota look in my old logs. Be back in a bit. B.H. |
dxAce wrote: Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. Actually, I think my earliest QSL dates from January 1967. From Radio Bucharest, Romania. I may have an earlier one from 1966, but I'm not sure. dxAce http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxlist.htm Not inclusive of ALL QSL's, merely representative of countries verified. |
Brian Hill wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. HCJB, via Bonaire? dxAce Thanks Steve. LOL, not sure what you're thanking me for. I was wondering... HCJB was out of Quito, Ecuador... I don't recall them being via Bonaire... dxAce Maybe It was Trans World Radio in Bonaire via HCJB? I gota look in my old logs. Be back in a bit. Well, TWR is/was in Bonaire, but not via HCJB. dxAce Michigan |
I found it. It was just a QSL from TWR in Bonaire and I got a QSL from HCJB Quito at around the same time. So those are my first two. I just put the two together in my head. LOL! -- 73 and good DXing. Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire! Zumbrota, Southern MN Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/ |
Brian Hill wrote: I found it. It was just a QSL from TWR in Bonaire and I got a QSL from HCJB Quito at around the same time. So those are my first two. I just put the two together in my head. LOL! Easy enough to do Brian, just wait until you get older. It gets harder and harder to remember. Glad you still have those QSL's. dxAce Michigan |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: I found it. It was just a QSL from TWR in Bonaire and I got a QSL from HCJB Quito at around the same time. So those are my first two. I just put the two together in my head. LOL! Easy enough to do Brian, just wait until you get older. It gets harder and harder to remember. Glad you still have those QSL's. dxAce Michigan Oh Boy! I'm glad I got em too. I'll need all the help I can get to back up my claims in old age. LOL! B.H. |
"Brian Hill" wrote in message ... What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. -- 73 and good DXing. Brian HCJB (via Quito, heh). 1976. I was 10 years old at the time... |
"Brian Hill" wrote in message ... 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. |
Mine was Radio Norway which used to broadcast in English, in 1964.
Mike |
dxAce wrote:
I was wondering... HCJB was out of Quito, Ecuador... I don't recall them being via Bonaire... I first heard HCJB in 1972 and at no time in the seventies did they use the RN relay facility at Bonaire. They had no need. They signals from Quito were HUGE in North America.. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ www.coffeecrew.com Colin Newell's Daily Grind rnewell AT vcn DOT bc DOT ca \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ |
My most memorable QSL was Radio Goroka, Papua New Guinea, 2410 Khz.. from '74 or '75.. C- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ www.coffeecrew.com Colin Newell's Daily Grind rnewell AT vcn DOT bc DOT ca \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ |
Radio Canada in 1973.. It was Ian McFarlands DX Show.. Ironically, Ian and I are now friends and neighbors! c- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ www.coffeecrew.com Colin Newell's Daily Grind rnewell AT vcn DOT bc DOT ca \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ |
Brian Hill wrote:
What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. RSA, around 1967. Only one I ever bothered to get when I was using "the Driftmaster". |
The first station that I heard was Kol Israel but the first QSL that I received
was from RSA in 1977. Good DX! John Barnard Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. -- 73 and good DXing. Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire! Zumbrota, Southern MN Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/ |
WBCQ ~ 2000 In article , "yojimbo" writes: Radio Nederland 1976. "Brian Hill" wrote in message ... What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. -- 73 and good DXing. Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire! Zumbrota, Southern MN Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/ |
My first QSL card was from Radio Moscow along with a lot of
propaganda material . 1963. My listening post was in Brooklyn, N.Y, and my receiver a Hallicrafters S-38B thatI bought on Courtlandt Street (Radio Row) in Manhatten. I still have the reciever but rarely use it. Chaz Marylabd, near the Chesapeake |
"Brian Hill" wrote in message ... What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. Radio Netherlands from Bonaire in 1970. My favorite card is from WINB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania. The card itself isn't much. It's small, with a line drawings of a globe and a microphone, the words World InterNational Broadcasters and is rubber stamped with the Rev. John Norris' signiture. WINB was the first of the now common evangalical political shortwave stations. Rev. Norris lost an important free speech case in the Supreme Court dealing with another of his radio stations. The wording of that decision, however, eventually became one of the important elements in the downfall of the FCC's Fairness Doctrine. The card is a sort of periphial connection to one of the names responsible for the current political free speech radio environment here in the US. I stopped QSLing around 1972. My only regret is never having sent a reception report to Alan Maxwell. Frank Dresser |
My first was from Radio Canada International in winter 1973 (January),
heard on a - gulp - Radio Shack 10-in-1 electronics kit crystal radio! Charles Gursky and Lynn Henderson doing their Sunday morning Listener's Corner mailbag-style show. 20-foot wire antenna wrapped around my bedroom, no ground at all. FWIW, Deutsche Welle and another station whose identity is lost to me, but may have been France (had an unusual harpsichord IS), also came in with much power in my old Massachusetts home. Did not QSL those guys until I got my Astronaut-8 and HQ-100 a year or so later, when I went bananas. Bruce Jensen ************ John Barnard wrote in message ... The first station that I heard was Kol Israel but the first QSL that I received was from RSA in 1977. Good DX! John Barnard Brian Hill wrote: What was your first QSL ? Mine was HCJB Bonair. I think the year was 1975 or 1976. -- 73 and good DXing. Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire! Zumbrota, Southern MN Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/ |
Radio Canada was "pleased to verify your report on the reception of C.B.C.
International Service" broadcast of May 24, 1969, on 21.595 mhz @ 1834 G.M.T. "Your report has been found to be correct. Thank you and best wishes from Canada". Basil "Pip" Duke's rubber-stamped signiature is faded, but still readable. Receiver was a Realistic DX-120, a Xmas gift from the folks. That QSL led to membership in Radio Canada's Shortwave Club as member # 10,279. |
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