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b"Dale E Winther the author of a new thriller that employs ham radio to save humanity from a global tyranny.\\xa0 Go to: www.thebrotherhoodofthebeast.com and read more about the story. You can buy it there in paperbook form or as a Kindle compatible PDF.\\xa0 It is also available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.Dale received his Novice License in 1964 at the age of 16. He says it was a painful six weeks of waiting for it to come in the mail.\\xa0 The day it came he quickly assembled a 15 meter dipole and put out his first CQ with a homebrew transmitter.Listening intently with his Collins TCS war surplus receiver and a Morrow band convertor he heard his first reply.\\xa0 It was WS6BR from Pago Pago American Samoa! Dale says communicating at such a distance was truly amazing.\\xa0 It seemed like magic.He was so excited by the contact.\\xa0 To this day he wonders why it is so difficult to explain the thrill to younger folk.\\xa0 They don't seem to comprehend the power and magic of radio.\\xa0 Perhaps they are so completely saturated by current technology that they just can't stop to ponder things.\\xa0 This is a shame.He then quickly located an old Harvey Wells Bandmaster so I could work the other bands.\\xa0 That little black wrinkle finish unit with the 807 tube was just terrific.\\xa0 He rode my bicycle 4 miles to a crystal grinder.\\xa0 They shaved some of the crsytals that were given to him to work on the novice frequencies.\\xa0 He tells how it was impressive to watch the frequency changing on the nixetube display during the re-grinding.\\xa0 He put them into my pocket, rode the 4 miles back home and immediately put them on the air!"