[Hallicrafters] Rare DX

[Jim Brannigan]

Great Story!!!


> Coaxial Islands - pretty funny - RG8U  RG8AU  RG6U and those 2-number
> "technician" licensees - RG58AU, RG59U
>
> kind of reminds me of 1965 - I was stationed at the Fleet Anti-Submarine
> Warfare Center, San Diego, and our club call was W6DCM (donuts, coffee, &
> milk.... Dis  Carded Merchandise).  We had a hotshot, who thought nobody 
> but
> he could work DX.  One evening, one of the guys disconnected the finals of
> his Heath 20m monobander, and called CQ (from the empty room, next door) -
> the signal came in VERY, VERY LIGHT on the S-line.  The "patsy" pushes the
> op away, who was "trying" to work the rare DX, with "Lemme' show ya' how 
> to
> do it!".  After repeated calls, he managed to work none other than 6V6GT -
> after he couldn't find it in the DX countries list, we held one up, so he
> could see what an idiot he was - great fun.
>
> Tom - WØEAJ