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- Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
- Path: sparky!uunet!voa3!df
- From: df@VOA.GOV (Dan Ferguson)
- Subject: Re: Dxers Christmas
- Message-ID: <Bzo1Is.1M3@VOA.GOV>
- Organization: Voice of America
- References: <01GSLMU9Y8IA9UN2RF@TOE.TOWSON.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:56:52 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <01GSLMU9Y8IA9UN2RF@TOE.TOWSON.EDU> S72UMIL@TOWSONVX.BITNET writes:
- >From 1970s edition of The DX Party Line on HCJB in Quito, Ecuador,
- >with hosts Clayton & Helen Howard. Author unknown.
- >
- >
- > DX'ers Christmas
- >
- >'Twas the night before Christmas and I was in bed,
- >not a signal was stirring: the bands were all dead.
- >An eight foot long stocking was hung: quite a trick,
- >next to the chimney to fit a joystick.
- >
- >Old Charlie was snuggled up tight in his bed,
- >and visions of fairies danced in my head.
- >I wore a new night-cap, I looked rather slick
- >with built-in headphones: I don't miss a trick.
-
- >
- >And I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight...
- >Wait till next year Charlie, I'll fix you alright.
- >
- >
- >Ian, N3CVA
- >Season's Greetings, and
- >73 to ALL
-
- This was the annual Christmas missive from Charlie Loudenboomer,
- president, chief honcho and whatever else, of the IWWCDXA (International
- World Wide Continental DX Association. Charlie had a monthly page in
- "FRENDX", the Journal of the North American Shortwave Association. After
- I gave up the Frendx publishing duties to others in 1975, Charlie would
- still send his stuff to me to forward to the new publisher. Some people
- thought I actually wrote them, but I wasn't that smart. A couple of years
- later Charlie hit someone's hot button & lost his page in Frendx.
-
-
- --
-
- Dan Ferguson df@voa.gov
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-