WA6AUD published the WCDXB for 11 years, every week, without missing one. This is just one of the
stories that Hugh published in the WCDXB, 4 May 1976
The Bermuda Triangle
There was a bit of a north wind last week but we found a protected spot and the visibility was
spectacular. And while two of us were industriously passing the happy hours watching down the bay, the
bane of all lazy DXers showed up. This one was the worrying type. "You know something?", this worrier
asked. "I've been reading all about the Bermuda triangle and those mysterious things that have
happened there. I believe that there is something to it. And I further believe that we probably have the
same thing right here. I sure do!"
It was obvious that we would not get rid of this one until we said the magic words so we said: "How's
that?" and the QRPer beamed. "Well", he said, "last night about midnight I was watching the sky and I
see this plane headed north out over the bay. It was quite visible with it's bright lights and I watched it
head north, away up high. But it went behind the trunk of a tree that was in front of me and I never saw it
come out. It just never came out!! Somewhere behind that tree something happened. Just like it has
happened in the Bermuda Triangle!" We both nodded in agreement with the worrying one and soon he
was off on his patrols.
After awhile the lazy DXer stirred a bit and asked: "Why didn't you tell him that it was just a plane
climbing north out of SFO with it's landing lights on as an anti-collision procedure? And the pilot just
happened to turn them off when the plane was behind the tree."
We thought this over for a bit and then threw in our clincher. "But can you prove that?", and we both
laughed. For there is a lot one must do on faith and logic. And maybe we cannot prove that the sunspots
will return one day . . . but we think they will. For they always have . . . be a Believer! The Great Days of
DXing are near. The signs are everywhere.
DX IS!
A man should keep his friendship in constant repair (Samuel Johnson (1755).
Stories, by Hugh Cassidy, WA6AUD