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

[Cecil Acuff]

You were cadillac'n...SP200.  Bug bit me at 14.  Allied Radio Shack "P" Box kit...regen SW receiver...same stations HCJB, various stations from USSR, Sweden etc..  Magical times. I remember coiling up 50 or 60 feet of wire and tossing it on the roof of the mobile home we rented not knowing it would have been much more effective if I had stretched it out to a tree.

Also had a tube type mono reel to reel recorder....recorded the entire Top 70 of 1970 broadcast off the local BC station, on New Year's Day 1971.... Wish I still had that tape.

That was a lifetime ago.

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> On Apr 14, 2016, at 11:50 PM, 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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