Topband: Top Band DXing Long Ago

[W2pm at aol.com]

Just the other day on a local radio station they were playing a vintage Jean 
Sheppard program tape from the his old days on WOR AM - Jean was K2ORS and a 
well known writer and radio raconteur. The tape I mention was where he tells 
about his first encounter with ham radio and got turned on. It was a shack of 
his pals dad and he explains how the guy was on 160 and had an antenna 2 miles 
long, etc. He said he couldnt hear the guy the ham was trying to talk to - all 
the noise and static made it impossible to make any sense of the conversion - 
he was hooked for life thereafter...

In a message dated 1/23/2004 2:43:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, k3ky at erols.com 
writes:

> In the previous year, 1959, I had gotten a brief glimpse
> of a complete, homebrew ham setup in a friend's home.
> I did not meet the ham father, but I did see a very
> impressive station with a lot of rack-mount gear. Later
> I realized that brief look at all that gear had made a
> very big impression on a 10 year old kid. So did that
> long-winded ragchew on top band. That missing side
>