Phil,
Those were the good ole cold war days.  There were many countries which 
we were forbidden to work that have opened up.  Also today there are a 
lot more nickle and dime entities which didn't exit back then.  Has 
anyone done a study of how the number of eligible "countries" has grown over 
time?  I forgot to mention the growing number of dx-peditions.

What I'm driving at is that it was more difficult to work countries back 
then because there were fewer of them and we didn't have the internet 
and dx spots.  

73 Chris w1gm
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 06:16:59PM -0700, Phil Scovell wrote:
> I passed my general in late 1966 and received my general class license in
> mid November of that year.  Shortly after the first of the new year, 1967, I
> realized I could worked DX even with wire antennas on especially 15 and 10
> meters.  I remember on Christmas day of 1967 I got on the air and just as I
> finished working a YO, making it country number 100 for me, they yelled
> downstairs and told me it was time to open presents.  I had just gotten mine
> by working that YO on 15 meters.  I don't remember one thing I got for
> Christmas that day but I do remember country number 100 and years later,
> country number 300 was an OJ0.
> 
> Phil.
> K0NX