A disheartening DX story

[Steve Green NEPA]

My lil nephew of age ten or so -- GREAT-nephew, actually -- was awed when he saw me a few months ago spinning dial at his family's kitchen table on a new Grundig S450. He said it was 'the oldest radio' he ever saw.

Can't imagine what his reaction would've been if his uncle was listening to one of these ........

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/zenith_transoceanic_b600.html

My grandfather , after whom I was named, had a T-O like this. And I was maybe 9 or 10 and my eyes lit up.

Echoing Gar and others : Yeah, it is great to see the younger pups starting to unshackle themselves from the zeitgeist offered by modern technology and its mercenary intent.

 

[gar hi]

It's so refreshing to hear how young people are interested in DXing!

I never would have thought it possible today with all the other available electronic gadgets we didn't have in the past.

Now image an AM band where you could not only listen to a lot more distant stations because the frequencies were not so loaded with many signals but you also heard top 40 music as well.


I know, I probably sound like an old guy telling his children "Back in my day, we walked to school in the snow ... uphill ... both ways."

And, actually when school closures happened when snow was at least a foot deep! Now, one or two little flakes, and not only will schools close, but the entire daytime lineup will be preempted on all of the Big 3 affiliates here in Seattle for hype coverage.

-crainbebo

The only thing I liked about the snow living up north was when it closed the schools.

I remember many a day from the late 60s through the 70s listening to my radio in the morning after a big snowfall when they would give the county by county listing of school district numbers and if I heard that number '551', it was a great feeling. "No school today!"

But it was frustrating on days when I heard so many other numbers in my county mentioned as being closed and not mine.

And I never got when they said a number and then added "Open but with no transportation". That's when I had to start begging my parents not to go to school. LOL