{"id":24961,"date":"2017-04-01T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T18:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24961"},"modified":"2017-04-02T06:21:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T10:21:38","slug":"30-year-flashback-from-the-april-1st-edition-of-the-cascade-mtn-dx-club-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/30-year-flashback-from-the-april-1st-edition-of-the-cascade-mtn-dx-club-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Year Flashback: From the April 1st Edition of the Cascade Mtn. DX Club Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among SWLing Post<\/em> readers, I’m sure there are others like myself who, decades ago, listened to the Zzzt…Zzzt…Zzzt!<\/em> sound<\/a><\/strong> of a dot-matrix printer as it spit out copy for “pasting up” a DX club bulletin. In the 1980s I was one of those enterprising DXers, taking over publication of the Cascade Mountain DX Club (CMDXC) when a local hobbyist lost interest in producing it.<\/p>\n

For a few years I found that creating a regular bulletin was almost as satisfying as DXing itself, and I went on to publish another local bulletin, DX\/Northwest<\/em>. It was a forum for DXers in the Pacific Northwest USA to share loggings and information. I also hosted occasional gatherings of Seattle area DXers who were members of the club.<\/p>\n

I recently came across my collection of all the past bulletins and appropriately found the April 1, 1987 edition of the CMDXC. I had completely forgotten I’d made an effort every April 1st to “spice up” the bulletin content with some April Foolery.<\/p>\n

The first item was slipped into the midst of the monthly loggings, just to make sure readers were paying attention:<\/p>\n

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The fictitious DXer named “Grobe” in the spoof logging was a thinly veiled reference to radio hobby publisher Bob Grove<\/a><\/strong> of Grove Enterprises and Monitoring Times<\/em><\/a><\/strong> magazine.\u00a0He actually wrote to me after the initial April 1st edition, beginning a running joke of humorous responses to my April Fool’s bulletin content, and always signing his letters “Bob Grobe”. I received similar letters from him after each year’s April edition. I don’t recall Bob ever being a member of the CMDXC, so I’m not sure how he knew of the content. I still have one or more of those letters stashed away somewhere.<\/p>\n

Perusing the\u00a0April 1st, 1987 bulletin again, I note\u00a0that I was feeling charitable towards a certain down-on-his-luck DXer “M.T. Pockitz” from nearby Vancouver, BC Canada, and wanted other club members to help him in his time of need. I was also in close touch with new developments in radio technology, as I am today:<\/p>\n

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Who else remembers the old DX club bulletins–from the dot-matrix printer era–with fondness? You may even be senior enough to feel nostalgic over the “ditto machine” or Mimeograph<\/a><\/strong> produced publications!<\/p>\n

To read more humor that only a DXer could love, I highly recommend Don Moore’s excellent web site BLANDX – Historical DX Humor<\/a>. <\/strong>This site is\u00a0<\/strong>the web archive of the classic BLANDX parody bulletins. I was an occasional contributor, and on the receiving end of Don’s wonderfully warped funny bone at times. If you can’t laugh at the BLANDX content,\u00a0watch out–your WPE Callsign<\/a><\/strong> might have expired!<\/p>\n

Guy Atkins is a Sr. Graphic Designer for T-Mobile and lives near Seattle, Washington. \u00a0He\u2019s a regular contributor to the SWLing Post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among SWLing Post readers, I’m sure there are others like myself who, decades ago, listened to the Zzzt…Zzzt…Zzzt! sound of a dot-matrix printer as it spit out copy for “pasting up” a DX club bulletin. In the 1980s I was one of those enterprising DXers, taking over publication of the Cascade Mountain DX Club (CMDXC) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5935,460,305,554,1],"tags":[145,6077,4101,6078,4094],"class_list":["post-24961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx","category-funny","category-nostalgia","category-slightly-off-topic","category-uncategorized","tag-dx","tag-dx-bulletins","tag-funny","tag-humor","tag-nostalgia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6uB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42493,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/adams-andes-dxers-international-certificate\/","url_meta":{"origin":24961,"position":0},"title":"Adam’s Andes DXers International certificate","author":"Thomas","date":"March 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adam Smith, who shares the following certificate and writes: I was going to share a piece of history I just came across going through some of my shortwave radio boxes. 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The MW Frequency Challenge consists of DXers trying to log as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Contests"","block_context":{"text":"Contests","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/contests\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dxcentraldiallogo-e1589287692319.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dxcentraldiallogo-e1589287692319.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dxcentraldiallogo-e1589287692319.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":65037,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/wnam-final-broadcast-and-dx-test-announcement-december-30-31-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":24961,"position":3},"title":"WNAM Final Broadcast and DX Test Announcement: December 30-31, 2025","author":"Thomas","date":"December 28, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The following announcement was shared by Loyd Van Horn of DX Central: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1280 - WNAM DX Test Announcement Dec 27, 2025 The Courtesy Program Committee (CPC) of the National Radio Club (NRC) and the International Radio Club of America (IRCA) announces a special DX Test for distant\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNAM-1947-ad.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNAM-1947-ad.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNAM-1947-ad.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNAM-1947-ad.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNAM-1947-ad.webp?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNAM-1947-ad.webp?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":23035,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/update-countdown-to-the-north-american-shortwave-dx-contest\/","url_meta":{"origin":24961,"position":4},"title":"Update: Countdown to the North American Shortwave DX Contest","author":"Thomas","date":"December 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, John Cooper, who shares the following announcement: NORTH AMERICAN SHORTWAVE CONTEST \u201cThe Final Countdown\u201d 2017 Just a friendly reminder that the North American SW DX Contest, \u201cThe Final Countdown,\u201d will be starting in a few weeks. \u00a0The Holidays are upon us and time is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Contests"","block_context":{"text":"Contests","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/contests\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160903_085705777.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160903_085705777.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160903_085705777.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160903_085705777.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":52637,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/special-dx-test-via-wcga-may-1-2022-at-0400-utc\/","url_meta":{"origin":24961,"position":5},"title":"Special DX Test via WCGA: May 1, 2022 at 04:00 UTC","author":"Thomas","date":"April 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor Loyd Van Horn at\u00a0DX Central who writes: Wanted to share this with you.....our final DX Central Live stream for season 2 will coincide with the upcoming WCGA-GA DX Test coming Saturday night\/Sunday morning. 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