Radio signals — in the air everywhere......sometimes.
As we drive home from work, the thought that comes to mind is, “I hope the band is open tonight.”
It may turn out to be a night of great signal reports, or you might wonder if the receiver is broken.
When I was a small child, I came across some pre-WWII copies of QST. In the DX column were pictures of amateurs in exotic locales of the world. It seemed we could talk to people who lived in those lands that Lowell Thomas presented in theaters, and that the National Geographic wrote about.
I was hooked! I still am. The adrenaline level jumps a little when a “rare” country is on the air. With a child’s imagination back then I could picture those radio waves striking the ocean on the way to Sumatra. Others hit and were re- flected from a moonlit Iowa cornfield on the way to Europe.
I’m older now, and I still think of radio waves that way.
Worldradio is very pleased to present the writings of a true expert (who writes so we can understand it) regarding the when, why and how radio waves really get from one spot to another. Bob Brown, NM7M, brings to this task the knowledge of a true scholar and the ability to communicate.
— Armond Noble, N6WR, Publisher