[BC] History re-write

[Glen Kippel]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:19 AM, <donroden at hiwaay.net> wrote:

>My favorite middle school reading was

>" S-0-S at Midnight " , " DX brings Danger " ,  and " CQ Ghost Ship "

>Hooked me on Ham Radio and Electronics in general.

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One of my sons recently gave me a copy of The Hardy Boys' "The Short-Wave Mystery" by Franklin W. Dixon. Interesting juvenile reading. But what got me interested in radio is when my dad would turn on our big Zenith radio on Saturday nights and we would all sit down to listen to "The Grand Ole Opry" from WSM, then "The National Barn Dance" on WLS, and sometimes "Louisiana Hayride" from KWKH and some border-blaster like XELO or XERF. I thought it was cool to listen to stations so far away.