[GreenKeys] Shortwave Receivers

[Larry DeSoto]

That's how I wound up being an electrical engineer.  It was 1956 and we were 
in Norway - my father was there with NATO.  At the time, we were living in 
an apartment over the owner's part of the house.  One night he fired up a 
shortwave receiver and let me have the headphones.  We were listening to the 
north sea fishing fleet's nightly rag chew in Morse.  I couldn't copy code - 
I didn't even know what it was at the time but I was fascinated to hear the 
the CW coming out of the night from small boats spread all across the North 
Sea.  I decided whatever it was, it was for me.  It's been almost 60 years 
and I still vividly remember that night.

Larry - WA5MLH


-----Original Message----- 
From: tony.podrasky
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:51 PM
To: Green Keys
Subject: [GreenKeys] Shortwave Receivers

GN OMs;

Me and my Dad went over to one of his fellow co-worker's
house for dinner. His fellow co-worker was an amateur
radio operator. I had no idea what that meant. After
dinner he took us out to the garage, pulled out a home-brew
regenerative shortwave receiver, connected a piece of "random wire"
to it, and fired it up.

There are no words in the English language to explain how
mesmerized I was!

Well - if you were a shortwave indoctrinate - here is a website for you:

https://www.google.com/search?q=shortwave+receivers&client=firefox-a&hs=pgn&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&imgil=IcKCdUOHF7L2gM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcR09vPmAWZOP00Htfr5VN5bCfh9OKYRDUwVlUM2Q5iKTyNpjvnHKg%253B785%253B425%253B3km03ZXXmLlm-M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.shortwaveradio.ch%25252Fradio-e%25252Fkurzwellenempfang-e.htm&source=iu&usg=__uAUEK10BTxvMo0OCuZ7puP-e-v4%3D&sa=X&ei=kz6iU8GbAsacyATV9oLQDg&ved=0CGAQ9QEwBA

I hope you can load this webpage.
UE,
W6ESE - TONY
NNNN
ZCZC

-- 


A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...
But - a true friend will be sitting next
to you saying, "Dang... that was fun!"
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