Ham Operators in Wichita Celebrate the 'Magic of Radio':

Joe Pajor remembers how as a kid in the 1970s you could just walk up a street sometimes and find friends and relatives with cheap shortwave radios, listening to conversations all over the world. And how there was this Augustinian priest, in Pajor's Catholic school, who had missionaries working in South America \& and was talking to them sometimes, on the air. "The magic of radio," he called it Saturday. "That was so cool to me. I thought, wow, if you're a ham radio person, you can talk to other side of the world."

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