No doubt I'm not the only person here who built Heathkit and Lafayette amps and .... Shortwave radios.
Inspired tonight when the local college radio station sent out Radioland by Kraftwerk.
Man, like from fifth grade right up through graduation my short wave receiver got big use. Especially when guys were in altered states. It was early pre -synth electronic music! Just as Kraftwerk sang. A big reason I loved them and got into synths and technopop.
But beyond that ... I wonder if a few of you remember trying to hack the crystals and especially the crystal key thingies you only got if you passed some bogus FCC license if you wanted to turn your shortwave into a two way machine.
The FCC did monitor things back then so it was a cat and mouse games sometimes, right?