I'm setting here with an old Hallicrafter S-120 Short Wave receiver, fiddling with the knobs and controls... I picked it up cheap at lunch, down at the junk store because no one knows what it really is<G> This radio can receive messages from FAR AWAY! Right now however it just sounds like a cat that got caught in the lawn mower<G> It needs an antenna and a clear signal, and that mostly happens late at night when the Sun don't mess with the waves of energy that circle the earth and are received by this cool gadget! This radio sometimes speaks a different language than the one I understand! I've heard Spanish,French, Russian and lots that I just don't know<G> ..like mayby Larrikan? *Sometimes it don't speak any language but a CODE... I've turned it on and received music! and sometimes I get a solid clicking beep to give me the *exact time from far away Hawaii! *Can you believe that! "Messages" can be sent across the far Pacific Ocean, or from any direction to me if I tune my amazing radio to the right place! I used to listen to Radio Moscow and the news from the BBC! Sometimes the "news" is not the same as what they show on the TV at night! ...cool! I get to listen to other peoples "perspective" and sometimes it's compelling and understandible<G> ...I'm going to need to look at a Atlas just to find out where all these places are in the world.. These radio messages are telling me that my town is a part of a region, a country and a hemisphere! THIS IS POWERFULL! *I just wish I could... Talk into a microphone, and direct it to my friends around the world who know about Royal Rangers! What a great thing.. We share a "Code" and have many ideas and good times <G> (I wonder what it would be like....) -- -=a=-
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