I sold my old Heathkit DX-60B transmitter, with the two crystals, and the "broad as a barn door" HR-10B receiver. I bought a Kenwood TS-520. Wow, having a VFO is really wonderful. The antenna was a 40M dipole and lots of stateside cotacts kept me on the air for hours. Hearing other amateurs talk about "DXing" got me interesting in putting up some type of antenna for the higher frequencies and the world of Dxing. Well, a simple 20meter inverted V, is the corner of my parents backyard and a few more dollars for coax, I worked my first DX station. An "EI" came back to my cq dx call! Wow, I was hooked. Later that year, a Heathkit SB-200 arrived at my doorsteps and about 12 hours later, two evenings, I was running high power!  I was really starting to have fun. My friends gave me the phoenitcs,  Larry's Best Friend. I was on a lot.

 

Well, moving to an apartment presented a problem, namely an antenna. Being on the 3rd floor of a seven story building did have possibilities though. I settled on this 5 band dipole, using the LATTIN principle. The vendor used loading coils at each end of the dipole for the 80M band, and wire stubs that you could adjust for resonance somewhere in the band. Wow, about a hundred feet or so of RG-8A and I had an interverted V up about one hundred feet and running power. I was working more DX than I thought  I could shake a stick at.

 

One of my most memorable contacts was getting up around 6:30am, having some coffee while listening to the 10 Meter band start to open up. I Called

CQ DX, and released the mic button. A VE6 came back to me, and I snickered, ah just a VE6, but he knocked me off my chair after signing, portable SU...EGYPT!!! My furtherest contact ever!

 

Well, years later, I moved out of that apartment, to much TVI and knocks on the door. Other apartments and experiments with various mobile whip antennas, and wires in and out the window. Nothing seemed to work like it used to. I  finally went QRT and boxed up everything.