Try telling that to a group of semi-serious citizens band radio operators in the States though — a band of Aussie wannabe’s who’ve ditched the bald eagle and adopted the hop-happy Australian icon as their own, going as far to even name a DX Group after it!

On the 26th of January 1993, the American Kangaroo DX Club was born so as to bring identity to a large number of cb radio users who lacked a recognised callsign at the time. Within a matter of hours, 80 members were recruited to the group, understood to be the brainchild of 2AK214 Betty, a popular YL who had inherited a love of the Land Down Under from her many travels here.

Once concerns by some Yanks about the name being ‘too Australian’ were extinguished, Betty and her partner Dan, also known as Rubberlip Number 1 amongst his mates on 27.385 MHz, went about constructing a vibrant and busy group of cb radio hobbyists under the banner of ‘American Roos’.

In no time at all, the American Kangaroos had signed up a bunch of European DXers with 26AK3212 Chris taking on the important responsibility of creating and maintaining a website for the club.

When the band is open with the States, keep a listen out for American Kangaroo members using the Alpha Kilo prefix on frequencies 27.490 MHz USB, 27.475 MHz LSB and 27.385 LSB with the latter most likely to offer toss up one of the Kangaroo loving DXers for a QSO.

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