Building a Classic Novice Station of 1956

摘要

Back in the mid-1950s, in the halcyon days of glowing vacuum tubes and handcrafted point-to-point wiring, annual editions of a short soft-cover book called How to Become a Radio Amateur enticed youngsters and adults alike with the magic of ham radio. It was within the well-leafed-through pages of these volumes that many thousands of ham radio operators of the era, including the present writer, received an introduction to the science, and romance, of how one could make photons leap into space from a resonant wire.