![]() ![]() 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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