How fortunate we are to have Jim Smith, VK9NS, write an amateur-radio-based memoir. With his life of world travel, his amateur radio exploits, and his flair for writing, he certainly has the "creds" for the job. The number of amateur radio memoirs published can be counted on one hand, as far as I know. Too many candidates have died without leaving a word, and more of the WW II generation is leaving us every day. This is a tremendous loss to us, and all the more reason to be grateful to Smith for his effort.rnBorn in 1928 in Scotland, Jim Smith was too young to enlist for WW II. He says little about his early life in the book, except that his father and his father's sisters and brothers "inherited a considerable sum of money." Smith describes home life as the war dragged on as "not exactly wonderful." Radio had sparked his interest as a teenager, and at age 17 Smith joined the Royal Air Force to train as a radio technician.
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