The Signal the New Ham Couldn't Decode
In ham radio, a mentor is called an Elmer. That's who fourteen-year-old Marcus found when he joined the amateur radio club in Cedar Rapids, Iowa....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Samuel 3:1-10.
In ham radio, a mentor is called an Elmer. That's who fourteen-year-old Marcus found when he joined the amateur radio club in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His Elmer was Walt, a retired engineer with a white beard and a garage station that looked like mission control. Marcus had earned his license and built his first antenna. Late one evening, scanning the bands, he heard something — a faint, rhythmic pulse buried in the static.…
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