One cold winter evening, late at night, I found myself in my easy chair, shoes off, TV off, a cup of hot coffee in one hand, listening to the icy wind blow past the window. It reminded me of a time many years before in southern Germany when I first got my ticket. My shack was in the control tower of a former Luftwaffe air field. The rig was a World Radio Laboratories Globe King 400B transmitter, running 400 W AM and the antenna was a Cubical Quad. It was 1956 and the sunspot cycle was at the all time recorded high. The world was at my finger tips. This was the way I always dreamed ham radio to be. I wanted to experience this again.
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