I know it's a long shot, but...Back in the late 60's while visiting my grandparents in Maine I was perusing the bookcase upstairs and there was a book (fiction) about a kid whose dad was the town's basketball coach and the kid just wasn't into basketball, but found an interest in ham radio. Think it took place in an earlier decade as he scrimped and mowed lawns to buy parts for his cw transmitter, etc. and in the end, his Ham Radio abilities work out in helping the basketball team. No great literary piece of work, but if someone remembers the title, I can probably find it on Amazon for nostalgia reasons. Tnx.