Radio Rescue

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2AZK saves the day! Back in 1923, a longdistance telephone call took hours to place, and overseas calls werent possible at all. But a new invention, called wireless radio, permitted instant communication over long distances. A young boy, itching to get involved, buys a secondhand receiver and earphones, and studies hard to learn Morse code so that he can pass the test to qualify as an amateur radio operator and get his own station 2AZK. Its fun talking with people all over the world just by tapping on his telegraph key (and readers can tap along theres Morse code to follow in the pictures). Then one night he picks up a distress signal from Florida family stranded in flood and uses his skill for something more important. Based on the authors fathers experiences as a young ham operator in the 1920s, Radio Rescue is an exciting story of a moment in technological history.

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