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

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I was bit at roughly the same age. A distant relative died and I somehow inherited a
5 tube radio to be “all my own”. It picked up the local AM stations and that was ok. 
After a bit I noticed this switch on it that flipped it to another band …hmmm … 
shortwave ….  That was it, I was hooked . Soon the bedroom was wrapped in wires as 
I tried to come up with a better antenna to “hear more stuff”. 

Bob

> On Apr 15, 2016, at 12:50 AM, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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**
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