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

[Steve Toth]

I was in the 8th grade.  One classroom.  Over in the corner was a big old floor standing wood cabinet radio with a large circular dial that had shortwave bands on it.  I got permission to stay in the classroom after lunch instead of going out to the playground so I could turn on the radio and listen to any shortwave stations I could find - I think it only had a wound loop antenna in the back of the cabinet.  I got hooked.  I saved up for a year using my paper route money so I could go down to Amateur Radio Supply in Seattle and buy a brand new Hallicrafters S38-E.  Would listen to the BBC, Radio Ecuador, Radio Israel, et al and mail them a note with date time and signal report asking for a QSL card from them.  Haven't looked back since (And I'm still hooked on tube type boat anchor gear). - Steve  K7PZN"Always look for a positive solution then Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome"
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines doing anything, who do the things that no one can imagine".....
 

      From: Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com>
 To: R390A <r-390 at mailman.qth.net> 
 Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 9:50 PM
 Subject: [R-390] The radio machine, getting bit by the bug
   
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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