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If anyone reading this has a QSL card from SX3A it would be appreciated if he would donate it to the Technical Museum in Greece." The text which follows was written by Pol N2DOE of Bergenfield NJ. Norman Joly and I first met in 1935 when I started working with Bill SV1KE as his radio mechanic. Norman was then working for the local agents of RCA selling broadcast receivers.
When I first began transmitting six years later, having 'discovered' the amateurs, I chose the callsign RX as I had been a listener so long, and also remembering the excitement of listening to G6RX. In 1930 I moved to Athens and became a salesman for RCA radios. My first transmitter was just an electron coupled oscillator using a type 59 output pentode from a radio.
I remember that together with the Westinghouse, we had an Atwater Kent, Philco, RCA, Stromberg-Carlson and several sets of European manufacture such as Philips, Blaupunkt, Saba etc. We finally settled for the German Saba because it was the prettiest and blended better with our living room furniture! "There were very few stations to be found on the short waves.
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