Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!voder!apple!winter From: winter@apple.UUCP (Patty Winter) Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics Subject: Re: A question (and back to medium wave DX)... Message-ID: <6770@apple.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 14:45:49 EST Article-I.D.: apple.6770 Posted: Wed Nov 18 14:45:49 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 09:59:56 EST References: <310@trane.UUCP> <5927@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <1154@saturn.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: winter@apple.UUCP (Patty Winter) Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA Lines: 23 Summary: Hams like SWLing, too Xref: mnetor rec.ham-radio:3247 sci.electronics:1762 In article <1154@saturn.ucsc.edu> haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) writes: >In article <5927@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> cuccia@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Nick Cuccia) writes: >>In article <310@trane.UUCP> cook@trane.UUCP (Eric Cook) writes: >>> Would anybody be interested in seeing a group for Shortwave >>> DX-ing called rec.radio.dx-ing? >>Sure, sounds like a thought, but why limit it to Shortwave DXing? >Well, why limit it to dx? Is there any interest in a group for >SWL-ing (and MWL-ing and LWL-ing and VHF-ing)? I'd like to cast an informal vote for keeping the SWL and related discussions here on rec.ham-radio. I certainly don't feel that this newsgroup is so heavily loaded that we need to weed out the stuff that isn't strictly ham-related. Anyway, I enjoy hearing about the SWL and non-ham DX stories. Ask me sometime about the tape we received at KKHI (San Francisco; 10KW) from the SWLers in Finland.... Patty -- Patty Winter N6BIS (408) 973-2814 M/S 2C, Apple Computer, Inc., 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014 {decwrl,nsc,sun,dual}!apple!winter