![]() He becomes the chum of another, local operator, an older boy who takes the younger under his wing and regales him with a story of how he figured in the rescue of a mother and child when a neighboring apartment house took fire. She charts his progress-and illustrates it with finely descriptive pen-and-wash artwork-of drumming the dots and dashes into his subconscious, memorizing international code words, then taking the test. Not many children bitten by the radio bug went on to get their amateur operator’s license, but Barasch’s father did. ![]() ![]() In this admiring memoir of her father as a young ham radio operator in New York City during the 1920s, Barasch pulls readers into the initiate world of Morse code and early intercontinental communications. ![]()
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