I was a 5-year-old boy when I watched my father, WA2NAU (now W2BIL), talk to another ham radio operator in Scotland. My dad’s “shack” was in the back bedroom of our two-story home in North Arlington, NJ. I was mesmerized by the warm glow that came from the tubes in his Viking-Johson transmitter. I didn’tContinue reading “The Wonder of it All”