My father had a 6 valve Philips radio with 3 SW bands he used to listen to the BBC test cricket broadcasts from here in NZ. I got on to its SW bands in 1952 and have been an avid SWL since. Now I am retired and in my 70's, I now have much more time to spend on my SW hobby. I have now logged 159 countries using my first real SW radio, a Panasonic RF220 to my now setup of an AirSpy HF +Discovery, a Tecsun PL880, and a great old DX394. Thanks for all your great videos. Cheers from New Zealand.
My father had an ITT radio in the living room and i used to tune in to shortwave radio stations. This was early 1980s, I was around 7... I was so fascinated, world was "smaller" those days. In Norway we had one tv channel and one radio channel back then. My mother told me to lower the volume many times, for her it was just noise. I'm 50 now, still interested in radio and radio communication
Hi Kevin, I had a similar experience to you re my fascination with radio, started to get interested in the early 70's used to sneak into my sister's bedroom and tune around on her clock radio 📻 and any other radio in the house, I think my dad got fed up with me always tuning his radio off the station he listened to that they got me my first radio which i think was a ITT LW/MW and FM set, like you I was fascinated by what you were able to listen to, as time moved on and after a variety of second-hand cheap short wave radios in the late 70's got my first general coverage receiver, it was a Panasonic receiver can't remember the model number that was great first time I could listen to SSB I was properly hooked on radio then this was also the time I got my first CB, I finally got amateur radio licence in 1988 and I'm still hooked on radio now.
Hi I started by pure chance by hearing a AM ham on 40 metres when tuning our domestic wireless about 1968/69. I later resolved ssb on a RGD radiogram by placing a homemade metal detector net to the IF. It happened to be on 455Khz and worked as a bfo! 73 Dave G4BTI
Hi Kevin, my interest in radio started at a young age in the early 60's in Uganda (East Africa) my parents used to play the "football pools" and would sit on a Saturday night tuned to BBC on their "radio gramme" which had a SW band and they would listen to the football results, the radio was a Phillips and it was a valve radio, after they had listened to the results I would twiddle the tuning knob and listen to many International radio broadcasts, I became fascinated by what this radio could do back then and so my radio "career" started and I'm still in it today 73's
Always remember watching my grandad hunched on a chair, chain smoking and listening to the pools results on a wireless in his hallway. I remember the static crackling in the background which sounded quite scary to me as a 5year old at the time. I am now 70. Amateur call sign G4BTI.
Hello! I started shortwave radio in school. I made simplest crystal set, but there was a "salad" from stations. afrter this I made superheterodyne from parts from old soviet receivers and TVs. When I want to communicate with my classmate - I made a transmitter from 4MHz crystal and two transistors. It works well - but the antenna was too short (I have not enough space for an antenna).
My father had a 6 valve Philips radio with 3 SW bands he used to listen to the BBC test cricket broadcasts from here in NZ. I got on to its SW bands in 1952 and have been an avid SWL since. Now I am retired and in my 70's, I now have much more time to spend on my SW hobby. I have now logged 159 countries using my first real SW radio, a Panasonic RF220 to my now setup of an AirSpy HF +Discovery, a Tecsun PL880, and a great old DX394. Thanks for all your great videos. Cheers from New Zealand.
My father had an ITT radio in the living room and i used to tune in to shortwave radio stations. This was early 1980s, I was around 7... I was so fascinated, world was "smaller" those days. In Norway we had one tv channel and one radio channel back then. My mother told me to lower the volume many times, for her it was just noise. I'm 50 now, still interested in radio and radio communication
Hi Kevin, I had a similar experience to you re my fascination with radio, started to get interested in the early 70's used to sneak into my sister's bedroom and tune around on her clock radio 📻 and any other radio in the house, I think my dad got fed up with me always tuning his radio off the station he listened to that they got me my first radio which i think was a ITT LW/MW and FM set, like you I was fascinated by what you were able to listen to, as time moved on and after a variety of second-hand cheap short wave radios in the late 70's got my first general coverage receiver, it was a Panasonic receiver can't remember the model number that was great first time I could listen to SSB I was properly hooked on radio then this was also the time I got my first CB, I finally got amateur radio licence in 1988 and I'm still hooked on radio now.
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I started by pure chance by hearing a AM ham on 40 metres when tuning our domestic wireless about 1968/69.
I later resolved ssb on a RGD radiogram by placing a homemade metal detector net to the IF. It happened to be on 455Khz and worked as a bfo!
73 Dave G4BTI
Hi Kevin, my interest in radio started at a young age in the early 60's in Uganda (East Africa) my parents used to play the "football pools" and would sit on a Saturday night tuned to BBC on their "radio gramme" which had a SW band and they would listen to the football results, the radio was a Phillips and it was a valve radio, after they had listened to the results I would twiddle the tuning knob and listen to many International radio broadcasts, I became fascinated by what this radio could do back then and so my radio "career" started and I'm still in it today 73's
Always remember watching my grandad hunched on a chair, chain smoking and listening to the pools results on a wireless in his hallway. I remember the static crackling in the background which sounded quite scary to me as a 5year old at the time. I am now 70. Amateur call sign G4BTI.
Hello! I started shortwave radio in school. I made simplest crystal set, but there was a "salad" from stations. afrter this I made superheterodyne from parts from old soviet receivers and TVs. When I want to communicate with my classmate - I made a transmitter from 4MHz crystal and two transistors. It works well - but the antenna was too short (I have not enough space for an antenna).