[R-390] The radio machine, getting bit by the bug

[Tisha Hayes]

I was bit by the bug when I was around ten years old. My father came back
from some hamfest with an SP-200 in a complete cabinet with a crinkle black
finish and the outrigger power supply. At nights I would sneak down to his
radio room and turn it on to listen to HCJB or Radio Australia. He figured
it out because the radio was never left on the ham bands.

A few years later that was gifted to me and he set it up on a little stand
in my closet of my bedroom. That was it.

I learned morse code by the dits and dahs of TVI, trying to find out what
was so important in those secret messages.

*Ms. Tisha Hayes*
*"*There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in **the
town; they are wasting their time.*
* It is possible to be a solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd;
and it is possible for those who are **solitary to live in the crowd of
their own thoughts.*"*
**-Amma Syncletica of Alexandria**