Murray Carl Mann Verie Collection

I started DXing in the latter half of the 1950's from Omaha, Nebraska, having noticed as early as 1955 that there were out-of-town radio stations that could be heard between my local stations. This armchair travel took hold and I was even more amazed to hear distant stations at night, my first being KOMA Oklahoma City. XERF Del Rio and KFI Los Angeles quickly followed. Late one night I fell across a strong signal that identified itself as WCWC in Ripon, Wisconsin, a daytime-only station that was on for a special DX test for the National Radio Club. I wrote the station to get an address for the NRC. The club sent me some sample bulletins and I was amazed to see how active and accomplished DXers were across the country. Upon joining, fellow Omahan Marv Robbins was the first NRCer to reach out and show me the finer points of DXing along with his amazing QSL collection. All during my high school years, late nights provided good listening from all over the country and Canada, one of the most memorable being a Sunday morning an ID in the clear from KGMB Honolulu while my local on that frequency WOW was off for its silent period (remember those?). I soon found two friends who were developing an identical interest in radio listening, Ernest Wesolowski and Carl "Skip" Dabelstein, and I steered them to the NRC. They both became members for decades, handily surpassing me with their catches. Ernie and I assisted Marv with the 1959 Omaha NRC convention, another high point in meeting some legendary DXers. Life's other interests and pressures curtailed my listening in the 1960's as I entered the radio biz at KDEY Boulder, followed by KATI Casper, KOOK Billings, and KOMA (fourteen years after first DXing them), then hometown KOIL Omaha. Though the passion for DX never left, I allowed my membership in the club to lapse but I still kept in touch with things through Ernie and Skip. I enjoyed a renewed interest in AM DX in the late 1970s that lasted until just past 2000 when the noise floor increased. I still enjoy talking and corresponding with DXers and often find myself tuning around on the car radio, the only quiet reception left, while on the road.

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