[Elecraft] K3 for Broadcast Band DX

[K9ZTV]

For me it was a brand-new Zenith Royal 500 "Long Distance" 7-transistor radio in burgundy with vernier tuning, leather carrying case, and earphone.

Around midnight in the summer of 1958 I lay, a 13-year old boy in Illinois, listening to KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast live updates on a commercial piston aircraft circling the airport with landing problems.  High drama for over an hour with anxiety clearly evident in the reporter's voice.  I eventually fell asleep (radio on, earphone in place) and learned the next day the plane had landed safely.  Rare excitement on the airwaves at the time and just one of several broadcast-band adventures which led in due course 
to a Novice license soon thereafter.

Still have the Royal 500, too. 

73,

Kent  K9ZTV


> On Jun 8, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Carl Jón Denbow <carl at n8vz.com> wrote:
> 
> I sometimes like to do a little Broadcast Band DX, takes me back to my high schools days with my GE transistor radio under the pillow.  I think some of you know the story. ;-)