{"id":789,"date":"2009-12-13T17:25:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T22:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midx.wordpress.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-12-13T17:25:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T22:25:23","slug":"dxing-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/12\/13\/dxing-the-80s\/","title":{"rendered":"DXing the &#039;80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just started DXing again this year 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 &#8220;boat anchors&#8221; 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 &#8220;World Monitor&#8221;.\u00a0 Finally &#8211; a receiver with a digital frequency counter!\u00a0 I could finally &#8220;see&#8221; what frequency I was on with some degree of accuracy, even though the frequency drift was anoying.<\/p>\n<p>My next big purchase was a Microlog &#8220;SWL&#8221; cartridge for my Commodore 64 computer.\u00a0 The &#8220;SWL&#8221; 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<p>Electronic messages with other DXers occurred through computer bulletin board systems and many long distance telephone charges to Kansas City&#8217;s 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&#8217;m 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 &#8217;80s pirate QSL cards which I&#8217;m beginning to digitize.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;DXing the &#8217;80s&#8221; and I&#8217;ll 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<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/194.195.86.119\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wrno-19au86-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-67 aligncenter\" title=\"WRNO 19AU86 Front\" src=\"http:\/\/194.195.86.119\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wrno-19au86-front.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wrno-19au86-front.jpg 1596w, https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wrno-19au86-front-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wrno-19au86-front-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wrno-19au86-front-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wrno-19au86-front-1536x983.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just started DXing again this year 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}