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• Title: Diplomatic DX: a Foreign Service Officer's Ham Radio Memoir (Short Wave Radio Communications) (Essay)
• Author : American Diplomacy
• Release Date : January 07, 2009
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 63 KB

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Editor's Note: The editor of American Diplomacy recounts some of his experiences coming from his long association with an out-of-the-ordinary means of international exchange of information--amateur, or "ham," radio. A form of cultural and informational exchange available for close to a century to radio enthusiasts around the world, in today's setting of electronic communication device proliferation, one tends to forget the role played by "ham" operators in years gone by. Still less is known about the communications that "ham" operators have carried out down to very recent times. The author thus fills a gap in our knowledge about this fascinating form of communications in a Foreign Service setting.--Henry E. Mattox, Contrib. Ed. "DX" is a term used by amateur radio operators, "hams," to indicate long-distance, usually trans-oceanic communication. When I first became involved in the hobby, as a teenager in the late 1950s, short-wave radio was still a cutting-edge technology, and the ability to sit in your bedroom or basement "ham shack" and talk to someone on the other side of the world, a DX station, was thrilling.

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