[NJARC] Man wins Cold War radio competition, 44 years later

[Pete Malvasi]

Reminds me of when in the mid 60s as a young SWLer I was sending letters and qsl requests to radio Moscow, Radio Budapest, radio Havana, radio Prague and others and recovered several replies which were stamped "inspected by FBI". Then a FBI agent visited the house to question my father why he had so much interest in Communist countries - he had the same name. I was summonsed up to talk to the agent - who was not very friendly looking - to explain what I was doing and he asked me of I listened only to the commies. I told him no but they had much better signals than others and had the best qsl cards - some I still have. I'm sure I'm still in the data base somewhere as a subversive but I did have security clearance in later years so I guess I've been forgiven.  



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