[ADXA] The "Good Ole Days" of DX'ing

[Dennis Schaefer]

1987 sounded good to me, I didn’t catch that at all - and I was there!  The meeting was at Carl’s Steak House, in NLR, or possibly LR.  San was there and had to leave a little early to deliver a baby.  Hoss Trader Ed Moory was also there and I think he had a new compact model of a Swan transceiver to show off.  Unfortunately, I don’t remember who else was there.  Possibly Bill Priakos?   Wayne Beck?   That poor memory is what also makes 1987 seem about the same as 1967!  Those were good times. 

 I guess it was the next year when we met at another central Arkansas location and I remember that Ham Robinson, W4ZR, and Moritz Shollmeier, WA5EFL, were the speakers.  I know Wayne Beck, K5HYB,  was there and I remember Sam Andrews (AE5L) also.  Larry Woolsey, W5HJA, and Dickie Freeling, W5TIZ, were probably there, also.

73,
Dennis
> On Nov 4, 2022, at 4:55 PM, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
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> 
> Its exciting to see that all of you read my posts.....its depressing to note, thanks to a few of you point it out, that the "June 29, 1987" date I noted below is only 20 years off. That date should have been June 29, 1967.
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> Sorry for the error and many thanks to those of you who pointed it out !!!!!! And a special apology to San, you're not 20 years younger like you thought when you read that !!!  :-))
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> 73 Joel W5ZN
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>> On 2022-11-04 14:27, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
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>> Greetings ADXA Folks,
>> 
>> When were the "Good Ole Days" of DX'ing?
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>> Well, that depends on who you ask! ADXA is about to begin our 56th year of existence. We still have one of the original members from that first meeting on June 29, 1987 with us - San K5YY (K5HQS back in those "good ole days").
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>> For me, it was when I first started DX'ing back in the early 70's. Those were some very good ole days. Receiving a signals from a distant land on my little radio built from a kit was magical.
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>> So what's your point here, Harrison? Its simple. We've just come out of almost three years of world lock down due to a pandemic. The world literally stopped. Our DX world stopped and went in to radio silence. Its now November 2022 and I just updated our website to note that T88WA is now ON THE AIR! ADXA folks, that gives us 4, yes FOUR DXpedition currently on the air; P29, J28, 5V, and T88. Two have just ended, TY and VK9 and three more scheduled to fire up this month.
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>> There is literally more DX out there than you can shake a stick at ! After a three year drought we're now drinking from a fire hose!
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>> These ARE the "Good Ole Days" of DX! So, you know what to do........
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>> GET IN THERE AND WORK 'EM !!!!!!!
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>> 73 Joel W5ZN
>> 
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