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

[David Sica]

Best DX'ing story EVER!



Dave Sica
New Jersey Antique Radio Club


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:52 AM, RICHARD LEE <radiorich at prodigy.net> wrote:

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> Now that's a great DXing radio story, Pete!  I mean, comrade! ...lol...R.
> Lee
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> 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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