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Ron,fangio28 said:
I'm impressed. You've got me beat.
I'm also a member of NRC, also off and on. I think I first joined sometime in the 1960's.
I began as a broadcast band DX'er around 1961 and kept up MW & shortwave DX until the late 60's. I had listened to out of town MW stations since the mid 50's, but I didn't know I was DX'ing until 1961.
Took DX'ing up again in the late 70's through the mid 80's.
Returned to the hobby in early 2009.
kudzooter said:
I joined the NRC around 1959 and was a member throught the mid 2000's. At some point, the symbiotic relationship between broadcasting and DXers turned into a contentious onewhere stations and broadcasters were blamed and insulted for doing everything from carrying Art Bell to installing HD Radio, so I dropped out.
I was also a founding member of the IRCA, another valuable club experience.
KR4BD said:
The National Radio Club, Inc. formed after the National Radio Club (confused yet?) convention in Denver in 1963 failed to produce changes in the administration of the NRC that were requested by nearly all of the most active members.
The "other" NRC" soon changed name to IRCA, and as one of the agitators, I was on the board for the first year.
Those were the days when the Frequency Check list was 6 to 8 pages of two-column listings and there were as many as two dozen DX programs on Monday Mornings. At least 500 of my 2200 verifications came from DX programs and Frequency Checks!
David...
I was in high school living in Riverside, CA in 1963 and was an acquaintance of Don Erickson (now deceased) who urged me to join the IRCA. Somehow, I was one of the original 100 members of the IRCA. They sure had nice newsletters packed with good DX info. By the late 60's, and off to college, I let the membership drop. Sometime in the late 1980's, I joined NRC and have been a member since then. I used to post under the name T.A. Mulvaney III. I wish I had all those early IRCA newsletters from 1964....
A list of the original 100 members of the IRCA can be found on the IRCA website. Here is a direct link:
http://www.ircaonline.org/ircahistory.htm
Some of those DXers sure bring back memories!
Tom
I was in high school living in Riverside, CA in 1963 and was an acquaintance of Don Erickson (now deceased) who urged me to join the IRCA. Somehow, I was one of the original 100 members of the IRCA. They sure had nice newsletters packed with good DX info. By the late 60's, and off to college, I let the membership drop. Sometime in the late 1980's, I joined NRC and have been a member since then. I used to post under the name T.A. Mulvaney III. I wish I had all those early IRCA newsletters from 1964....
A list of the original 100 members of the IRCA can be found on the IRCA website. Here is a direct link:
http://www.ircaonline.org/ircahistory.htm
Some of those DXers sure bring back memories!
Tom
David, thanks for your post with all the IRCA info, especially the initial membership roster. Those names brought back a lot of memories from my years in the 1950s in the NRC.
BTW, it was seeing your reference to the club beneath your post on the Arkansas page, that inspired my question.
73!
BTW, it was seeing your reference to the club beneath your post on the Arkansas page, that inspired my question.
73!
KR4BD said:
There are a couple CDs for sale with the IRCA bulletins from the beginning... Lee Freshwater, the publications guy for IRCA, can give you more info.
Here is a page from an early bulletin, before the name change...
http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive Cleveland/NRC-IRCA Bulletin Number 4.pdf
I looked at the list of the first 100, and it sure did bring back memories.
fangio28 said:David Eduardo:
May I assume you used to be known as David Gleason?
That makes sense...
I was an NRC member 1957 to 1963. I was a charter IRCA member, and co-hosted its 1964 convention. Dropped out and rejoined around 1968 and stayed around until maybe 1972. Virtually all my radio-info posts are on the Ala, Miss, and La pages (and just a few in the Chicago section). I live in the Mobile-Pensacola area. Once owned FM stations in Jackson Miss and Mobile.
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