> - Definitely check out CW (morse code). It's amazing that it's still in use but it's lots of fun. Morse is one of those "unreasonably effective" technologies

> - Definitely check out CW (morse code). It's amazing that it's still in use but it's lots of fun. Morse is one of those "unreasonably effective" technologies. * Short of very advanced (and likewise constrained) digital methods, it's the king of long distance. * You can whack together a radio out of $10 of scrap bits. * You can't buy it. It's not a circuit or a thing. It's a skill that you need to learn and it takes way more than just learning the alphabet.