By mur Ranvro Fore he 20-metre amateur band these s seems to be just chock-a-blo with stations, and most of them are certainly coming in very fine business On Friday evening I was confined to bed with a cold, but this proved to be a boon more than anything else, for I was able to indulge in a long session of 20-metre band listening without fear of interruption from anyone.
I have to do my listening on a standard commercial superhet, 7-tube variety, because if I went in for anything special in the way of sets, people would say that anything I picked up did not count, as the ordinary listener, with an ordinary set, would be unable to dupli But these modern super! eaker only, certainly are a revelation!
I tuned in twice during the evening, once from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and again from 11 pin, to 1 am. (I should have been asleep at the latter hour, but, as usual, could not resist the temptation to try for just one more station) My cold may have made me somewhat light-headed, or something, but, the fact remains that three of the stations positively identified themselves as being in one place when, by their call letters, they should have been several hundred miles away! You'll see what I mean when I get to them.
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