[Hallicrafters] SP-600 JX-26 & SX-42

[Jim Brannigan]

Those were the days........
BBC "This is London" and the bong of Big Ben and "real news" (not NPR
wannabees)

Army ROTC problems centered around stopping the Red hordes at the Fulda
Gap.....

"duck and cover"

Radio Peking was a tough receive..(S-77 and a long wire),but .....
I always enjoyed Radio Tiranas rant about "running dogs of Western
Imperialism"

Radio Moscow's sports news......"the track meet between tractor factory #2
and..........

Many of the QSL's and such were lost over the years, but I still have a
letter from Radio Havana on re-used Chemical Bank stationery.

SWL'ing just ain't the same.......

Jim

> Jim Brannigan wrote:
>
> "The mailings from behind the Iron Curtain were non-political in nature.
> I received nice Christmas cards from Radio Moscow for several years......"
>
> Me, too. And this caused some temporary consternation a few years
> later.  By then, I had developed at least an ambivalent, if not
> downright tepid, feeling toward the USSR thanks to my youthful
> interchanges with Radio Moscow (how bad could these people be?).  In my
> mind, it didn't quite square with the "assertive" political
> indoctrination I was receiving during training as a Naval Aviator in the
> late '60's.
>
> Luckily for the cause of democracy, I was eventually shipped out to
> Yankee Station off the coast of "Veet-Nam" and had little spiritual
> struggle thinking unkindly about the Commie hoarde in that part of the
> world.
>
> Jim may recall some of the musical selections we were favored with by
> Radio Peking. I found one tune especially inspiring. According to the
> announcer, the song celebrated the toil of those who "hauled the dung to
> the top of the mountain."  Ah -- those were the days....
>
> 73,
>
> Craig
> W3CRR