This actually got me into amateur radio as a hobby. It started when I was young and not tired enough to goto sleep. I had a decades-old transistor radio and w

This actually got me into amateur radio as a hobby. It started when I was young and not tired enough to goto sleep. I had a decades-old transistor radio and would scroll through the dial using the smallest fractions of adjustment and hearing the world open to me. Dark of night, speaker pressed to my ear so my parents wouldn't hear and yell at me. Languages I'd never heard before and had no way of knowing where they were. Magical is the best way I can describe the experience. The world became both small, and vast in the same moment.