Amateur Radio... A Hobby For All Seasons

摘要

I first became interested in radio about 1947 as a Cub Scout, when I got a Morse Code buzzer and built a crystal set. Later, as a Boy Scout, I built a three-tube regenerative receiver and earned a radio merit badge. While working on the Scout badge I learned something about the existence of amateur radio. It seemed very exciting to be able to talk to other persons around the world from your own room. One day my dad told me that his cousin Charles, who lived in Independence, Missouri, was an amateur operator (WOHKC). I was an eighth grader at the time and my first visit to cousin Charles' shack was like a fantasy vision. His car had a mobile rig, and his basement study seemed to be full of exotic gear, including a "bug" key, a chrome-plated microphone, and several radios with more meters and dials than I had ever seen.