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I just started DXing again in 2009 after being out of the hobby since about 1990.\u00a0 I was active during my teenage years in the 1980s and was affiliated with such radio clubs as IRCA and the ACE.\u00a0 At that time, I was primarily interested in shortwave pirate radio DXing, mediumwave DXing, and shortwave utility monitoring.\u00a0 My equipment was modest and included various old tube \u201cboat anchors\u201d that usually gave poor results but kept the room warm on winter nights.\u00a0 Antennas used were nothing more than a long wire strung through some tree branches outside.\u00a0 At some point I got a little more serious and saved enough money to buy a General Electric #7-2990A \u201cWorld Monitor\u201d.\u00a0 Finally \u2013 a receiver with a digital frequency counter!\u00a0 I could finally \u201csee\u201d what frequency I was on with some degree of accuracy, even though the frequency drift was anoying.<\/p>\n

My next big purchase was a Microlog \u201cSWL\u201d cartridge for my Commodore 64 computer.\u00a0 The \u201cSWL\u201d allowed digital mode reception to be captured and decoded using the C64 allowing clear text viewing and printing of non-encrypted RTTY, CW, etc.\u00a0 In 1986, this was indeed high tech stuff, or at least it seemed like so to me!<\/p>\n

Electronic messages with other DXers occurred through computer bulletin board systems and many long distance telephone charges to Kansas City\u2019s ANARC BBS.\u00a0 Cassette tapes of recorded DX receptions were happily traded with other DXers across the country and from overseas.\u00a0 I have numerous air checks of shortwave pirates, numbers stations, and other curiosities that I\u2019m slowly migrating to MP3.\u00a0 I hope to offer these recordings through these pages as time goes on for those interested.\u00a0 The same goes for my humble collection of \u201980s pirate QSL cards which I\u2019m beginning to digitize.<\/p>\n

By about 1990 I left the hobby and moved on to other interests, but the DX bug has struck again twenty years later, and here I am writing about it.\u00a0 I have a lot good memories \u201cDXing the \u201980s\u201d and I\u2019ll be revisiting them here from time to time while sharing my current station loggings.\u00a0 If you share the same excitement about DXing then I invite you to stick around.<\/p>\n

Aside from DXing, I also enjoy collecting early technology and have a strong interest in antique radios, early vacuum tubes and antique incandescent lamps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I just started DXing again in 2009 after being out of the hobby since about 1990.\u00a0 I was active during my teenage years in the 1980s and was affiliated with such radio clubs as IRCA and the ACE.\u00a0 At that time, I was primarily interested in shortwave pirate radio DXing, mediumwave DXing, and shortwave utility […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}