(Continuation from yesterday)

I didn't talk this story, but my parents might have noticed me, looking blue.

I was asked the reason by them, and I explained about this accident. After that they asked me how much I needed to get the power supply.

When I answer the price of the power supply provided by a famous company which covered the two times ampere of the radio, they gave me the money easier.

I was very happy.

Though I don't remember when I was given the radio, I have a vivid recollection that I confirmed the supply and radio went well.

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Ham radio was one of the expensive hobbies, because each machine and device price was high.

My family was be in necessitous circumstances, and it was difficult for me to ask my parents something except for commodities.

So I continued doing all kinds of things to save money, for example, lifting up a cheap antenna on the roof, and make connectors of cable by myself.

In order to realize "talking to person far off", I studied telegram and Morse code, and got the license.

In the frequent band I have ordinary used, the radio wave went thought ionized layer and reached to the space. But in the quite short time in summer season, a ionized layer (Sporadic E layer) happened and it could reflect the wave.

At the moment, the wave continued reflecting between the layer and ground, and it reached far away.

I cannot forget a memory, that I could decode the characters "NAHA OKINAWA" from Morse code.

(To be continued)