The beginning is BCL...
When I was a junior high school student, listening to overseas shortwave broadcasts was the trigger for me to start wireless.
I am sure that many of you in your 40s, who are the same age as me, have had the same experience.
At the time, one of my favorite Radios was the Sony Sky Sensor 5900.
After a while, the National Cougar 2200 was announced.
I used a National Cougar 115 as my main radio.
Since the Cougar 115 cannot read the frequency directly, I remember spending days tuning the frequency to receive one station.
Japanese-language broadcasting stations such as Moscow Broadcasting, Beijing Broadcasting, and Korean Central Broadcasting often sent paper cutouts, pennants, and postcards.
Radio Kiev (an English broadcaster) sent me a number of magazines in large envelopes.
The Deutsche Welle Japanese radio station in the former West Germany was a little difficult to listen to, but one day I was surprised when a large pennant was sent to me.
At 7pm, when I swept the dial from JJY at 10MHZ to 9MHZ, I heard a waltzing matilda accompanied by a QSB, followed by a kookaburra call.
ABC, Radio Australia.
I was moved by the fact that the radio waves, accompanied by interference and fading, came from far away from Australia.
BBC can't forget the sound of that Big Ben. 9.725MHZ was heard well at 8:00 p.m.
In the news broadcast on April 1st, it seems that false news was the norm every year? ?
HCJB was broadcasting under 10KHZ. "Sakura Sakura" from Ecuador in South America, the true back of the earth, evokes nostalgia.
Speaking of HCJB, I was irresistibly fond of the sound of the koto in the morning Japanese broadcast for South America, “Sakura Sakura”.
When I turned on the BFO and swept around 7MHZ and 3.5MHZ, I was able to hear the ragchew of amateur radio stations.
It was around this time that I began to think that I wanted to not only listen to radio waves, but also transmit them myself.
Time has passed and I'm a first year high school student. In 1979, I opened a telephone class amateur radio operator.
I started generating waves at 10W with my own 7MHZ DP antenna.
I was surprised when I was able to QSO with Argentina (LU) on 7MHZ SSB.
At that time, the condition of the high band was good, and we were able to QSO with Europe with the DP of 28MHZ.
I think I went up to about 80 in DXCC. In Japan, JCC seems to have been less than 500...
Twenty years have passed since time passed.
As soon as I decided to settle down, I really wanted to do radio.
I bought an antenna for 6,000 yen, pulled out a 10W machine from the storeroom of my parents' house, and made it to ON-AIR.
When I made a QSO with ZD8 with a long pass on a 21MHZ SSB and 6m high GP, I was amazed by the "wonder" that nature creates.
Currently, I'm playing with NAGARA's TA-351-40/T2-3VX, Sloper Antenna and YAESU FTDX5000MP.
I felt the limits of SSB and started CW.
With the CW debut, DXCC and JCC also increased somewhat.
I don't progress CW. It's embarassing.
That being said, if you hear it somewhere please play with it.
Please don't say "I can't hear you".
Future goals are...
QRO, BIG antenna installation, etc.
It seems that amateur radio will not get tired for some time.
After all, wireless seems to be a lifelong hobby for me.
Still in progress. Still continuing.
/// JHOOXS ///
I am sure that many of you in your 40s, who are the same age as me, have had the same experience.
At the time, one of my favorite Radios was the Sony Sky Sensor 5900.
After a while, the National Cougar 2200 was announced.
I used a National Cougar 115 as my main radio.
Since the Cougar 115 cannot read the frequency directly, I remember spending days tuning the frequency to receive one station.
Japanese-language broadcasting stations such as Moscow Broadcasting, Beijing Broadcasting, and Korean Central Broadcasting often sent paper cutouts, pennants, and postcards.
Radio Kiev (an English broadcaster) sent me a number of magazines in large envelopes.
The Deutsche Welle Japanese radio station in the former West Germany was a little difficult to listen to, but one day I was surprised when a large pennant was sent to me.
At 7pm, when I swept the dial from JJY at 10MHZ to 9MHZ, I heard a waltzing matilda accompanied by a QSB, followed by a kookaburra call.
ABC, Radio Australia.
I was moved by the fact that the radio waves, accompanied by interference and fading, came from far away from Australia.
BBC can't forget the sound of that Big Ben. 9.725MHZ was heard well at 8:00 p.m.
In the news broadcast on April 1st, it seems that false news was the norm every year? ?
HCJB was broadcasting under 10KHZ. "Sakura Sakura" from Ecuador in South America, the true back of the earth, evokes nostalgia.
Speaking of HCJB, I was irresistibly fond of the sound of the koto in the morning Japanese broadcast for South America, “Sakura Sakura”.
When I turned on the BFO and swept around 7MHZ and 3.5MHZ, I was able to hear the ragchew of amateur radio stations.
It was around this time that I began to think that I wanted to not only listen to radio waves, but also transmit them myself.
Time has passed and I'm a first year high school student. In 1979, I opened a telephone class amateur radio operator.
I started generating waves at 10W with my own 7MHZ DP antenna.
I was surprised when I was able to QSO with Argentina (LU) on 7MHZ SSB.
At that time, the condition of the high band was good, and we were able to QSO with Europe with the DP of 28MHZ.
I think I went up to about 80 in DXCC. In Japan, JCC seems to have been less than 500...
Twenty years have passed since time passed.
As soon as I decided to settle down, I really wanted to do radio.
I bought an antenna for 6,000 yen, pulled out a 10W machine from the storeroom of my parents' house, and made it to ON-AIR.
When I made a QSO with ZD8 with a long pass on a 21MHZ SSB and 6m high GP, I was amazed by the "wonder" that nature creates.
Currently, I'm playing with NAGARA's TA-351-40/T2-3VX, Sloper Antenna and YAESU FTDX5000MP.
I felt the limits of SSB and started CW.
With the CW debut, DXCC and JCC also increased somewhat.
I don't progress CW. It's embarassing.
That being said, if you hear it somewhere please play with it.
Please don't say "I can't hear you".
Future goals are...
QRO, BIG antenna installation, etc.
It seems that amateur radio will not get tired for some time.
After all, wireless seems to be a lifelong hobby for me.
Still in progress. Still continuing.